Not necessarily. It's the year the item was copyrighted, which may be different than when it was actually made.
Because the term of protection is usually measured by the life of the author rather than the copyright date of the item, it may seem that the copyright year is unimportant. However it gives an excellent indication of the currency of the materials, and does form the base line for measuring term of protection on certain works.
First, the author generally retains the copyright unless other agreements are made. Second, the duration of copyright protection is based on the death year of the author.
US copyright law comes from the Constitution, which was ratified in 1788. Prior to that was Britain's Statute of Anne, in 1709.
according to the manual I have it was 1958 or at least that was the copyright year.
You need to be more specific on what item you are talking about and what model of that certain item you are refering to.
Each song has its own copyright year.
No, the copyright date is not always the same as the publication date. The copyright date is the year when a work is legally protected, while the publication date is when the work is made available to the public.
You can determine the year a Pokmon card was made by looking at the copyright date on the bottom of the card. This date indicates the year the card was printed and released.
yes they only made 10 a year beside 94 and 95
US copyright law comes from the Constitution, which was ratified in 1788. Prior to that was Britain's Statute of Anne, in 1709. Many international copyright laws stem from the Berne Convention, 1886.
Technically, it can't; what probably happened is they didn't expect it to be made available until 2013, and printed it that way.
Most websites give the copyright year as the current year, because that's when the page rendered. See at the bottom of this page, Copyright [current year] Answers Corporation.