Time
failed to renew the copyrights of many early issues. A search of the renewals for periodicals for entries for
Time
reveals that the publisher, Time Inc., started renewing the copyrights of
Time
magazine
in 1962 with the 29 January 1934, issue
. Therefore, issues that were published before 29 January 1934 are in the public domain. In addition, a few later issues
were not renewed
. The copyright on this issue of
Time
magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
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Vol. 1, no. 1 — vol. 23, no. 4
3 Mar 1923 — 22 Jan 1934
Vol. 25, no. 1 — vol. 27, no. 26
7 Jan 1935 — 29 Jun 1936
Vol. 34, no. 1–10
3 Jul 1939 — 4 Sep 1939
Vol. 45, no. 2–5
7 Jan 1945 — 29 Jan 1945
Vol. 52, no. 1–7
5 Jul 1948 — 16 Aug 1948
Vol. 57, no. 1
1 Jan 1951
Vol. 61, no. 1–24
5 Jan 1953 — 15 Jun 1953
Vol. 61, no. 26
29 Jun 1953
Vol. 62, no. 1 — vol. 63, no. 1
6 Jul 1953 — 4 Jan 1954
Vol. 65, no. 18
2 May 1955
Vol. 65, no. 23
6 Jun 1955
Vol. 66, no. 26
26 Dec 1955
Vol. 67, no. 15
9 Apr 1956
Vol. 70, no. 15
7 Oct 1957
Vol. 70, no. 26
23 Dec 1957
Vol. 71, no. 1
6 Jan 1958
Vol. 73, no. 1
5 Jan 1959
Vol. 76, no. 22
28 Nov 1960
Vol. 77, no. 13
24 Mar 1961
Vol. 78, no. 8
25 Aug 1961
Vol. 78, no. 11
15 Sep 1961
Vol. 78, no. 23
8 Dec 1961
Vol. 81, no. 1
4 Jan 1963
All issues not listed in the table above had their copyright renewed, without exception. Note that works appearing in the public domain issues of
Time
may still be covered by copyright if they were published prior to their appearance in
Time
(with notice and renewal) or otherwise separately registered and renewed.
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This work is in the
public domain
because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the
copyright was not renewed
. For further explanation, see
Commons:Hirtle chart
and
the copyright renewal logs
. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the
rule of the shorter term
for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (70 years
p.m.a.
), Mainland China (50 years p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 years p.m.a.), Mexico (100 years p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 years p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.
