Copyright Notice Generator

Create copyright headers for your project.

freeworks offlinenothing uploaded
Input
Output
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About copyright notice generator

Copyright Notice Generator needs nothing from a server once the page has loaded. Leave it open on a train with no signal and it carries on.

Everything runs client side, which is the only arrangement where a privacy claim is checkable. Open the network tab and watch it stay empty.

You will find it under Licences & legal, alongside 5 other tools for the same sort of job.

Supports standard, MIT, Apache 2.0, Creative Commons, all-rights-reserved, HTML, and code comment formats.

How to use it

01
Start it
Every control is on the tool itself. Keyboard shortcuts, where there are any, are listed beside it.
02
Watch it run
It updates in the page as you go. Nothing is sent anywhere, so it keeps working with the network off.
03
Close when done
Nothing is stored between visits. Reloading gives you a clean start rather than picking up where you left off.

Examples

MIT license header for open-source project
Generate a full MIT license notice with custom holder and year range
Input
holder: Acme Labs
year: 2023-2025
format: mit
Output
MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023-2025 Acme Labs

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUD…
Code comment copyright block
Generate a copyright notice formatted as a multi-line code comment
Input
holder: Acme Labs
year: 2025
format: code-comment
Output
/**
 * Copyright (c) 2025 Acme Labs
 * All rights reserved.
 */

Questions

Does Copyright Notice Generator work offline?+

Yes. It is JavaScript running in this tab, so once the page has loaded it needs nothing further from the network. Put the machine in flight mode and it carries on. Nothing you do here is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere for it to go.

Does it remember anything between visits?+

No. Reload the page and it starts from nothing. There is no account, no saved state and no cookie holding your last session. That is a deliberate trade: it cannot lose your data because it never keeps any.

Is it accurate?+

Timing comes from performance.now(), the high resolution clock the browser provides, rather than from setInterval, which drifts by a few milliseconds every tick and compounds over minutes. What can still shift things is the browser throttling a tab in the background, so leave it visible if the timing matters.

Does it make a sound?+

Where a sound makes sense, it is generated with the Web Audio API rather than loaded as a file, so there is nothing to download and nothing to block. Browsers refuse to start audio until you have interacted with the page, which is why the first press is what switches it on.

Can I use Copyright Notice Generator on a phone?+

Yes. The controls are sized for touch and the layout collapses to one column on a narrow screen. Bear in mind that a phone locking its screen will suspend the page, and timing stops with it.