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.
Web pages are typically designed to indicate a new copyright date each time they are generated; thus the copyright date would be the current year. That being said, the site went live in 1998.
Each song has its own copyright year.
I am quite sure it is in the front few pages.
If you're numerating the pages of a book, you would typically start with the first page of text, and exclude the title page(s), catalog-in-publication, copyright notification, table of contents, and even introductions and forewords.
Yes. Prentice-Hall books should have a copyright page. In most of their books it is after the title page.
Google gives the copyright date as the current year, because that's the date the page rendered.
Websites generally give the current year as the copyright year, as that is when the page rendered. Wiki.answers.com has a copyright notification at the bottom of every page.
We do not publish pages of answers as this may violate copyright laws.
Black Beauty first came out in the year 1994
It depends on the type of material. Books have notifications on their copyright pages; movies include notifications in the credits; fine art may not be marked at all.
Websites generally give the current year as the copyright year, as that's when the page rendered.
Given current copyright law, it's merely a courtesy; notification is not required for protection.