2004.
"Ella Enchanted" by Gail Carson Levine was published in 1997, so the copyright date would be 1997.
Yes; current copyright term is based on the life of the author, so the date is immaterial. For corporate works, however, term is based on the copyright date, so printing the date on the material would be extremely helpful.
Google gives the copyright date as the current year, because that's the date the page rendered.
Copyright is automatic, so it will be the date the image was created.
In many cases, the copyright date determines how long the work will be protected (in other cases, it has more to do with the date of death of the author). For non-fiction works, the copyright date is an easy way to tell if the information is reasonably current.
Not necessarily. The release date can be well after the copyright date.
A corporate entity would not have a copyright date.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published in the United States in 1885, so the copyright date would be around that year.
The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl was first published in 1966, so the full copyright date would be 1966.
The copyright date of the original book is July 24th, 1954The copyright date of the movie is December 19th, 2001The copyright date of the video game is September 24th, 2002
The copyright date of Twilight is 2005.
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.