DescriptionNews-Week Feb 17 1933, vol1 issue1 (cropped).jpg
English: Cover of the February 17, 1933 (vol. 1 issue 1), first issue of News-Week magazine (now Newsweek). The issue features seven photographs from the week's news on the cover. Featured are: Adolf Hitler, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Franz von Papen. The issue has 32 pages and cost 10 cents.
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The February 1933 issue of News-Week would have to be renewed in 1961. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/cce/
The search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1960, 1961 and 1962 show no renewal entries for this issue. The first issue to have the copyright renewed is Newsweek. Vol. 37, no. 2, Jan. 8, 1951 according to the Copyright Office database (reg. no. RE0000046287).
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