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! Sent from AOL on Android On Mon, May 6, 2024 at 10:19 PM, Smith, Wayne via cctalk<cctalk(a)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.