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Works copyrighted before 1964 had to have the copyright renewed sometime in the 28th year. If the copyright was not renewed the work is in the public domain. Time magazine was not diligent in renewing the copyrights of their early issues. The first renewal was filed in 1962 starting with the January 29, 1934 issue. Time failed to file any renewals in 1963, 1967 and 1972.

The following issues of Time magazine are in the public domain.

March 3, 1923 to January 22, 1934.
January 7, 1935 to June 29 1936.
July 3, 1939 to May 13, 1940
January 7, 1945 to January 29, 1945.

The table below shows the copyright registrations and renewals of issues up to 1946. The information is from the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office. Online page scans can be found here: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/ Use the "Renewals for Periodicals" section near the bottom of each year.

Notes: Time magazine has two volumes of about 26 issues a year. The copyright records use a date format of day, month, year.

Renewal Year	Volume	Number	Issue	Copyright	Renewal
1962	23	5	29 Jan 1934	26 Jan 1934 B214218	25 Jan 1962 R289538
-	24	27	31 Dec 1934	28 Dec 1934 B246496	2 Feb 1962 R290021
1963	25	1	7 Jan 1935	NA	1963 None
-	27	23	29 Jun 1936	NA	1963 None
1964	28	1	6 Jul 1936	3 Jul 1936 B306035	2 Jul 1964 R340442
-	29	26	28 Jun 1937	25 Jun 1937 B342541	27 Oct 1964 R347559
1965	30	1	5 Jul 1937	2 Jul 1937 B343591	28 May 1965 R362618
-	31	26	27 Jun 1938	24 Jun 1938 B383181	5 Nov 1965 R372855
1966	32	1	4 Jul 1938	1 Jul 1938 B381891	15 Jun 1966 R387504
-	33	26	26 Jun 1939	22 Jun 1939 B421278	11 Jul 1966 R389156
1967	34	1	3 Jul 1939	NA	1967 None
-	35	20	13 May 1940	NA	1967 None
1968	35	21	20 May 1940	16 May 1940 B456211	2 Jan 1968 R426124
-	38	7	18 Aug 1941	14 Aug 1941 B509211	13 Nov 1968 R448117
1969	38	8	25 Aug 1941	21 Aug 1941 B509413	10 Jan 1969 R453485
-	40	15	12 Oct 1942	8 Oct 1942 B559908	29 Oct 1969 R471757
1970	40	16	19 Oct 1942	15 Oct 1942 B561315	28 Jan 1970 R478766
-	42	9	30 Aug 1943	26 Aug 1943 B598217	28 Aug 1970 R490503
1971	42	10	6 Sep 1943	2 Sep 1943 B598856	1 Jan 1971 R498608
-	45	1	1 Jan 1945	21 Dec 1944 B660596	3 Jan 1972 R520136
1972	45	2	7 Jan 1945	NA	1972 None
-	45	5	29 Jan 1945	NA	1972 None
1973	45	6	5 Feb 1945	1 Feb 1945 B663703	31 Jan 1973 R545536
-	47	25	24 Jun 1946	20 Jun 1946 B26468	23 Oct 1973 R561566

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