Re: Now here's an easy one...

On Wed, 22 Jul 1998, Michael Lean <m.lean[_at_]qut.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Here's a question that's so easy I couldn't answer it when one of our
> staff asked me: Why is the copyright year displayed on a motion picture
> expressed in Roman numerals?

I heard an explanation, which I'm not sure is true, but what the heck.

The idea was that, if expressed in Roman numerals, the audience won't be able to immediately comprehend the date of release, and so movies that are a year or two old won't seem any less current for inclusion of the date.

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