Copyright dates (was: reach for the sky (UNCLASSIFIED))

[victor steinbok]

School textbooks are usually copyrighted two or three years ahead
because of the logistics of delivering them to schools. The editing
process is usually completed about 3 years ahead of the date and
printing within the following year (and continuously after that). The
copyright year coincides or is one year later than the state approval
competition year--either California or Texas. All the variant editions
get multiple copyright dates, including the one for the main series.

But this is a fairly recent invention.

VS-)

On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 3:48 PM, David Bowie <db.list at pmpkn.net> wrote:
>
> Under US copyright law, the year of copyright listed in the front matter
> can be the year before or the year after (or, of course, the year of)
> actual initial publication without jeopardizing the copyright status of
> the work in any way.
>
> <snip>
>
> --
> David Bowie

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