Template:PD-US-not renewed-TIME/doc

This licensing template indicates that an issue of Time magazine is in the public domain. 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.

By default this template indicates that it is in the public domain due to lack of renewal, however, if a year of publication is supplied, and the year is before 1929, this template automatically switches to indicate that the file in the public domain per {{PD-US-expired}}.

The template automatically sets the following categories: Category:PD US not renewed, TIME

Usage

{{PD-US-not renewed-TIME |1= }}

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionDefaultStatus
1The year the issue was published.emptyoptional

Additional information

The template is intended to be used in the following namespaces: the File namespace

The template is intended to be used by the following user groups: all users

Example

{{PD-US-not renewed-TIME|1924}}

renders as:

Public domain 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 1924 issue of Time magazine was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
Public domain
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

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