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<p>[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4537477, member: 56"]I don't think these things are legal requirements, it's a case of protecting intellectual property. You have to apply for LoC and ISBN numbers, but they become unique identifiers.</p><p><br /></p><p>We see plenty of books here that only give a copyright year. You can't tell from that if it was printed in that year or twenty years later, or if the book is a first edition or 21st, or if it's from the original publisher or not. The more information a copyright page provides, the tighter the control a publisher has on a title, and the easier it is for dealers to know what they are dealing.</p><p><br /></p><p>And then there are the collectors and what they want to know.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="moreotherstuff, post: 4537477, member: 56"]I don't think these things are legal requirements, it's a case of protecting intellectual property. You have to apply for LoC and ISBN numbers, but they become unique identifiers. We see plenty of books here that only give a copyright year. You can't tell from that if it was printed in that year or twenty years later, or if the book is a first edition or 21st, or if it's from the original publisher or not. The more information a copyright page provides, the tighter the control a publisher has on a title, and the easier it is for dealers to know what they are dealing. And then there are the collectors and what they want to know.[/QUOTE]
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