Why are public interest groups copyrighting their stuff unnecessarily? Yeah, current law attaches copyright to what you create whether you post notice or not, but as for notices on websites go I suspect that there's some amount of bad habit involved. Back when I was building websites for a living and didn't know any better, I'd automatically stick a copyright note in the template footer for my clients because I thought it made the site look more "official."
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