Re: Wrong Year in Notice

From: Carl Oppedahl <carl[_at_]oppedahl.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 10:50:45 -0400

At 10:11 AM 10/23/95 -0500, John Katzman <john.tpr[_at_]review.com> wrote: 

>> 
>> Where the year date is more than one year later than the year in 
>> which publication first occurred, the work is considered to have 
>> been published without any notice and is governed by the provisions 
>> of section 405.

>
> What if the publication is being altered every year (as the liturgical
> text mentioned probably was, if only marginally)? Should the copyright
> notice read (c) 1981-95, or can it just read (c) 1995, secure that the
> text common to all editions is already protected by earlier notices?

The answer can be easily seen, hundreds of times, in any bookstore. Probably on your own bookshelf. Open up any regularly updated book. A dictionary will do, or a World Almanac. You will see a copyright notice like 1981-1995, or a long string of individual years.

This is covered in some detail in "What constitutes a satisfactory copyright notice?" at http://www.patents.com/copyrigh.htm#notice. 

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