Anchor Yale Bible Commentary Copyright date

I've only spot checked this, but if I have any volume of the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary open and display the "Information" on the resource (or if I simply choose to display "Information" in the Library), it shows the copyright date as 1974 under the "Copyright" heading regardless of the book's copyright date. Other commentary series show the copyright date of the particular volume. (Other than the ICC, which often shows the Book's copyright year, but shows no copyright year at all if the volume is in the PD but does declare "Copyright T & T Clark" -- a statement that seems a bit ironic to me, but may make sense in reference to UK copyright protocols.)

So, in reference to the Anchor Yale Bible Commentary, if "Copyright" under the book's information isn't showing the copyright year of the book, what is it showing?

Thanks!

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Phillip J. Long

I think this answers the question: The first volumes of the Anchor Bible Commentary was originally published starting in 1964 (E. A. Speiser, Genesis). Yale bought the whole series and re-copyrighted them as the Yale Anchor Bible Commentary in 2008 (for the Genesis commentary). I do not think anything changed in the older volumes when Yale took over other than inserting Yale into the title.

For Anchor Bible Dictionary (1992-) and the volumes of the Anchor Bible Reference Library, Logos updated the title (inserting the name Yale) but not the copyright. I assume Yale did not update the copyrights for those books.

Lew Worthington

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240022#Comment_1240022

This history sounds right, but I'm still not sure what the "1974" refers to in terms of the Logos library's representation of these resources. It's not a big deal, of course, but it seems kind of random especially since 1974 doesn't appear in most of the volumes' front matter.