It means you're the only person who can copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display the book, or authorize others to do so.
Each book has its own copyright information.
Once you have written a book, it is copyright to you. All writers copyright their own books.
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It can mean that either the book was published in 1905 or that the original story was copyrighted in 1905 and published at a later date.
The year of the encyclopedia is the year of the copyright; there are far too many editions to answer this question directly.
The letters are Roman numerals that stand for the number (hence the copyright year) 1950.
Yes; translations and revisions can have their own dates.
No. The International Standard Book Number is a 10- or 13-digit commercial identifier. The copyright date is a 4-digit year.
A set of letters or numbers on the copyright page generally refers to the number of the printing or edition of the book.
Yes, it does. Just like any other Copyright.
The book was first published in 1947, and the first English edition came out in 1955. Various editions will have their own copyright details.
If the name of a college were under copyright that means that you could not open your own college and use the same name. There is already a Harvard University, you cannot open another Harvard University. But you can certainly write a book about Harvard University, if you so desire. Copyright doesn't mean you can't write about something.