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I got a message saying meta copyright is no longer kosher
It said to use dcterms.rights and dcterms.copyrighted

I looked at htmlvalidator.com pages for examples on how to use them, but you do not use them.

I googled without satisfaction. One example is worth a paragraph of description.
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Thanks.

This messages is about HTML5 and "old" copyright meta tags like this:

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	<meta name="copyright" content="AI Internet Solutions LLC">
I've updated the validator message that is generated by the above to:

Remove this meta tag and use one or more of these metadata names instead: "dcterms.dateCopyrighted" for the date of the copyright (like <meta name="dcterms.dateCopyrighted" content="2014">), "dcterms.rights" for information about the rights held in and over the resource (like <meta name="dcterms.rights" content="statement or information about copyright">), and/or "dcterms.rightsHolder" to specify the person or organization owning or managing the rights (like <meta name="dcterms.rightsHolder" content="person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource">). Furthermore, "copyright" is not a recognized metadata name. Visit http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/document-met ... data-names and http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions for more information.

It's long but it should be more helpful.

There is some more information here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6665 ... d-in-html5

And here:
http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

So some examples are:

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	<meta name="dcterms.dateCopyrighted" content="2014">
	<meta name="dcterms.rights" content="statement or information about copyright">
	<meta name="dcterms.rightsHolder" content="person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource">
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Re: Copyright

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I added tags like this:
<meta name="dcterms.dateCopyrighted" content="2008">
<meta name="dcterms.rightsHolder" content="Canadian Mind Products">
<link rel="schema.dcterms" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">

It now passes. In the explanation I would use "ABC Corp" instead of descriptive wording.
IT also might help to add some line breaks.
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Thanks. I've changed it to "ABCXYZ Corp" but validator messages are not designed to contain line breaks so I can't add those.
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