On: Why do studios use Roman numerals in the copyright...

[Reason077]

Anecdotally, this is much less common now days. You see it all the time in films and TV shows made before 2000 or so.

But modern productions almost always just write out the year in the normal way, eg: “(C) 2018 Lions Gate Films Inc”.

However, the BBC is an exception: all their productions seem to use Roman numerals.

[n1b0m → Reason077]

We Brits are funny. Obsessed about our independence and not being controlled by Europe, but still paying deference to things such as Roman numerals. Ironically the alternative Arabic numerals are even more “foreign”.