Wikipedia:Time magazine

Time Warner the publisher of Time (magazine) allows thumbnails of its magazine covers to appear in Wikipedia under the template:TIME aka {{TIME}} . The archivist has given permission to use any image from the online cover gallery for any use. The only restriction is that the image have a link back to Time.com. Please include a link to the specific image in the Time cover gallery on the image description page.

Proposed new license

This image is a scan of a cover of an issue of TIME magazine, and the copyright for it is held by Time-Warner, the parent company of TIME. The Time archivist has given permission to use any image in any article provided that it contain a "link back to time.com"

Disputed license

This image is a scan of a cover of an issue of TIME magazine, and the copyright for it is held by Time Warner, the parent company of TIME. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of TIME magazine covers

• to illustrate an article, or part of an article, which specifically describes the issue in question or its cover,
• on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

Most TIME covers used by Wikipedia have been obtained from the TIME magazine online cover gallery, which may have additional bibliographical detail and information about further licensing. To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

Time magazine archivist Bonnie Kroll

Subject: RE: AskArchivist
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:51:30 -0500
From: Bonnie_Kroll@timeinc.com Add to Address Book Add Mobile Alert
To: travb****@yahoo.com
Thanks for submitting your question to Ask the Archivist.
Fair use doctrine allows you to use a reasonable text excerpt with a link back to the entire article at time.com.
You may also use a thumbnail of our cover images, as long as you link back to a page on time.com.
Best regards,
Bonnie Kroll
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