US copyright law comes from the Constitution, which was ratified in 1788. Prior to that was Britain's Statute of Anne, in 1709.
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.
Not necessarily. It's the year the item was copyrighted, which may be different than when it was actually made.
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.
according to the manual I have it was 1958 or at least that was the copyright year.
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.
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.
Technically, it can't; what probably happened is they didn't expect it to be made available until 2013, and printed it that way.
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.
Black Beauty first came out in the year 1994