Copyright Dates

September 25, 2008
Intellectual Property News and Interesting Facts

When you see several dates in a copyright statement, it simply means that certain things were created in one year and modified later.

It could also mean that new things were created and added in a later year.

It most definitely does not refer to the date that a copyright will expire. Expiration of a copyright actually takes place much later, and this period of validity begins from the date that you see in the copyright statement.

The Berne Convention establishes a general and minimum period that lasts the life of the author and fifty years after his (or her) death.