How well I had to remember the early deadline before the date something was 
really going to be hit the streets I did photography work for magazines and 
yeah you had to have it in early just because it was going to be a December 
issue I bet you had to have stuff in there generally several months ahead of 
time are you lost out some editors wanted stuff even earlier just depended on 
how they were and what they were doing and what schedule they were working on 
and what their time frames were but yeah I think we all nailed it down on that 
date then thanks everybody for chipping in on the information!

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  On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:19 PM, Smith, Wayne via 
cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:   "November 19, 1974" is what is written 
on the "Date of Publication of This Issue" line in Copyright "Form B" (for 
periodicals) used at the time.  The form then states "The copyright law defines 
the 'date of publication' as '. . . the earliest date when copies . . . were 
placed on sale, sold or publicly distributed."  The form is then signed 
pursuant to 17 U.S.C. sec. 506(e), which provided for a substantial fine in the 
event that any false representation was made on the form.

There is no reason to doubt the date of publication in the notice.  In fact, 
there is every reason to believe it is correct.  In the magazine business it is 
a routine business practice to have actual publication occur months prior to 
the "cover date" the publisher places on the magazine.  The reason for this is 
so that the magazines could remain on the newsstands for at least a few months 
without appearing to be stale.  This is particularly the case with magazines 
published on a monthly cadence.

Just as a check, I looked up the publication date of the January 1975 issue of 
Playboy.  According to the copyright registration, it was November 20, 1974.

> Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 01:27:28 +0000 (UTC)
> From: ED SHARPE <couryho...@aol.com>
> Subject: [cctalk] Re: Altair 8800 50th birthday...
> To:    "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
>     <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> Cc: Sellam Abraham <sellam.ism...@gmail.com>
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> 
> Perhaps After doing the layout work in the November  it was perhaps
> copyrighted Immediately during layout But it did not ship Until January
> Think!  back in those days things did not instantly happen and we're instantly
> shipped Ed#
> 
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> 
>  On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 7:09 AM, Sellam Abraham via
> cctalk<cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:  On Fri, May 3, 2024, 1:28 AM Smith,
> Wayne via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > I looked up the Jan. 1975 issue of Popular Electronics in the
> > Copyright Office's Periodicals Digest.  It was published on Nov. 19,
> > 1974 if you are looking for an actual anniversary date.
> >
> 
> The January issue was certainly not available in November of 1974.
> 
> When did it actually get sent out and start showing up in people's mailboxes?
> 
> Sellam
> 
  

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