A copyright year in a book (usually in the first few pages right next to a c with a circle around it shows the date of publication. Hope this helps. It's the first question Ive tried to answer :)
Typically the first copyright date will be the date it was first completed, and later dates will indicate later editions. Just grabbing the first book at hand, I see the copyright dates are given as 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, and 1960; the copyright date for this particular instance of the book is then 1960.
In a copyright statement of the form
Copyright (c) <year> <name>
the year is the year of actual publication of the document.
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The author (or other rightsholder) has the exclusive right to copy, alter, distribute, or perform/display the work, or license others to do so, for a limited time.
Yes; particularly in non-fiction books, facts may be substantially updated between editions.
Copyright information for a book is generally found on the reverse of the title page, and includes the copyright date, the rightsholder, and the country of origin.
The letters are Roman numerals that stand for the number (hence the copyright year) 1950.
No. The International Standard Book Number is a 10- or 13-digit commercial identifier. The copyright date is a 4-digit year.
The copyright year for The Hunger Games is 2008.
2010.
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 copyright, for the original text by Cornelia Funke, was 2000, but the English translation was copyrighted in 2002.
Assuming tha you mean book 1- 'Artemis Fowl,' the copyright date is 2001, as stated in the book.
The copyright date is the year the text was completed. It may or may not be the same as the publication date.
No copyright date is given in the book. It would be between 1888 (the year its prequel, The Hidden Hand was published) and 1899 (the year Southworth died). It is in the public domain.
Typically no; there may be seemingly minor changes to the edition. However under current copyright law, duration of protection is based on the year the creator died, not the year the book was published.
The year of the encyclopedia is the year of the copyright; there are far too many editions to answer this question directly.
Technically, it can't; what probably happened is they didn't expect it to be made available until 2013, and printed it that way.