This is definitely one of those "I Am Not A Lawyer" areas. "
The copyright law", Randal? There's only one now, in one jurisdiction? : )
I agree that the poster should at least check that what they're doing is correct before someone comes back from the Legal Department to say "aha, hey, you know what..?" and makes them do it again.
More to the point, a better idea would be to replace with some kind of solution like a server-side include, if this is a website we're talking about. We long ago converted all pages to use "copyright.txt" at the bottom for just this reason.
($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print
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