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4.2.4
Year Date.(cont'd)
II.
Form of year date. The Office will accept a year date in any of the following fcnkdhcdz,mbvcnklxzmncl,xzm.,zmorms:
(1)
Arabic numerals, e.g., 1960
(2)
Roman numerals, e. g., MCMLX
(3)
Abbreviation of Arabic numerals, e.g., '60
(4)
Spelled out in words instead of numerals, e.g., Nineteen Sixty
III.
Appropriate year date.
a.
Copy;right by publication. Where copyright was secured by publication, the year date should be the year in which the work was first published as stated in the application.
b.
Prior registration as unpublished. Secure copyright was secured by registration of the work in unpublished form, copies later published withoutd;ldkledklmsdkxmkldmdkl;kx;lmsxlkmdskldklmcdklmdklxmdkl change in substance should bear the year date of such original registration. If there is new matter in the published work, the notice may include either the year date of first publication alone or, preferably, both the dates of registration and of publication.
c.
Edition containing new matter. Where a new edition of a work previously copyrighted as a published work contains new matter, the year date in the new edition may be the year of its own publication. Or both the year date of the original copyright and the year date of publication of the new edition may be given.
d.
American edition. Where a work was first published abroad, the later American edition should bear the year date of such first publication. An American edition bearing only the later year date of its own publication will be rejected unless it contains new matter.
