It is very normal that we are making a footer on our website and that in said footer we want to put the reference to the copyright of the page. What is known as copyright ©. Copyright reflects the copyright on the literary, artistic or scientific work, both published and those that have not yet been published.
The correct way to put a copyright is the following:
"Copyright [dates] by [author/owner]"
Put this in HTML has no mystery. It would be the following line of code:
Copyright 2006 by Line of Code
Pure and simple text. The word copyright can be replaced by a c surrounded by a circle. Since if we use the symbol (c), it will not have legal value.
In this case we will have to rely on HTML entities. The entities are a set of abbreviations that help us represent special characters, such as copyright, in a standard way.
In order to include an entity within our website, we must use the following structure:
&code;
That is, we will put an ampersand & followed by the entity code and we will end with a semicolon ;.
In this case, the entity of the copyright is ©. In this way, our code HTML would look like this:
© 2025 Line of Code
Another way would be using the code associated with the copyright, which is ©. In this case, the line of code would be the following:
© 2025 Line of Code
Both the entity with the text and the entity with the code would give the same result.
© 2025 by Line of Code
With this you will already know how you can include the copyright © within your website, although you can read more about copyright on Wikipedia to learn more about it.