Ethical, Legal, or Not?

While looking at the TIME Magazine Corpus of American English I quickly thought that this website was obviously illegal and unethical because it has information from TIME magazine without consent. The site has magazine publications all in the copyright range… But I played and fiddled on the site I realized that I don’t really think that it is even though it looks that way from the surface.

The website seems to not have broken and of the ‘Fair Use’ guidelines.

1. It seems the purpose for this site is to inform people of the words or phrases used in TIME Magazine in all its years published.
2. The the work itself is not fully shown. The most shown from the magazine is a sentence before the word you searched and a  sentence after.
3. The website itself is not receiving any profit from using this information.

I wanted to look further into the purpose of the website (even though it was very hard to figure out how things work) I found this tool on comparing the word you searched for in TIME Magazine publications to the word in Google Books.

So.. I thought I would look for a word that I thought just became famous in the past decade. I searched for “terrorist” It was interesting to see that TIME has published the word terrorist since 1923. It was explaining Russia ruin. The words use over the decades has increased rapidly except for a decrease in the 80s and 90s. Its been used from describing Nazis , and Irish republicans to the modern use today.

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