Websites typically give the copyright year as the current year, because that's when the page rendered. On wiki.answers, the notification is at the bottom of each page.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Yes; notification is not required for protection.
Ask the copyright holder for permission.
Libgen is a website where you can download books for free, but it is not considered a safe website as it hosts copyrighted material without permission.
Yes, it is unlawful to download copyrighted material without permission.
If it is copyrighted, then yes. Created by someone that has not copyrighted their material, then no.
Yes, it is illegal to download copyrighted material without permission, even for personal use.
Downloading copyrighted material without permission is illegal and constitutes copyright infringement.
You just did! The design of this webpage is copyrighted and the words you are reading at this moment are copyrighted. However, you have a LICENSE to download them. If you do NOT have a license or other lawful excuse to download copyrighted material, then it would be illegal to do it.
Generally when public domain material is reissued, a copyright will be registered for any new material, such as annotation, compilation, etc.
Same way you'd sell anything else on the street.Newsstands are one example of a business selling "copyrighted material" (i.e. newspapers and magazines) "on the street."Note that if you're copying copyrighted material and selling it on the street, you're breaking the law.