Copyright protection begins automatically at creation, though you're right that it's most common for the year of the copyright notice to read the year of the first publication of the work.
Cheers, Paul Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Nov 1, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Paul Crovella wrote: > >> Use the date of creation of the work - i.e. the year you took the >> picture. > > This reasoning is problematic and/or simplistic. Copyright is a way > of protecting your authored works from illegal reproduction and > establishing ownership. It has nothing to do with when you created a > work, it has everything to do with when you released it for public > consumption. > > If you made a negative in 1963 but didn't print it and offer it to > the public until 2007, and copyrighted it as 1962, the copyright > protections are already expired ... > > Godfrey > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
