copyright date
Legal timestamp marker
The copyright date is the year a work was first published or registered for copyright protection, typically appearing after the © symbol on title pages, packaging, or credits: copyright date 2024.
It establishes when legal protection began and helps determine when a work might enter the public domain.
- publicationIssued written material
- yearTwelve-month duration
- printedTransferred to paper
- first editionOriginal published version
- editionSingle published version
title page · author · publisher · ISBN · imprint · trademark · registered · legal notice · ownership · intellectual property · original · reprint · out of print · typeface · colophon · frontmatter · spine · binding