Question re: roman numerals in credits

Jan 8, 19984 posts by 4 posters
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ericperlin

My question pertains not only to Seinfeld, but to virtually all TV shows and movies of the last several decades.

How come, in the closing credits, the year a TV show or film was copyrighted is always written in ROMAN NUMERALS, as opposed to plain English???

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ericperlin@SPAMSUCKS!!!pb.net wrote in article ...

and movies

copyrighted is

Seinfeld's copyright date uses cardinal numbers (i.e. 1998 rather than MCMXCVIII). I believe it is placed under the Castle Rock sign at the end. It doesn't show up on syndicated eps. Hoewver, the Disney/Touchstone shows use the roman numerals.

J.P. Kirby Fredericton, N.B., Canada, Earth Roads: http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/7212 NB Radio: http://members.tripod.com/~jpkirby/nbradio.html

copyrighted is

        ** The producers think that when it gets old, you'll go
           away liking it better if you can't figure out how old
           it is.
- Mark L. Levinson - [email]