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Torstar Syndication Services (TSS) provides value-added services to publishers,
companies, governments and consumers by collecting, packaging and distributing
content. Activities also include managing content rights, and marketing and
licensing content. The help us better understand your needs, please refer to the
following list:


TERMS OF USE FOR DEVELOPERS:

Toronto Star, Metroland and Torstar APIs and other web services for all
commercial purposes must be licensed through Torstar Syndication Services.

Torstar API commercial purposes include but aren't limited to developing a
software product or training an artificial intelligence system or machine
learning or providing archived or cached data sets containing Torstar content to
any person or company in any product or service that competes with Torstar
products or services. Contact syndicate@torstar.com


LICENSING PHOTOGRAPHS

All photographs that are copyright to the Toronto Star must be licensed
exclusively through Getty Images. You can visit the website and receive a quote
at www.gettyimages.ca/collections/toronto-star, or contact them directly at
sales.na@gettyimages.com.


TORONTO STAR PHOTO ARCHIVE

Photos from the Toronto Star Archive can be searched in person at the Toronto
Reference Library at 789 Yonge St. or online at
https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. Images from the archive at the Toronto
Public Library are for personal, non-commercial use in print. Some educational,
non-profit and community projects may fall under commercial uses and require
licensing permissions. Please contact TSS at syndicate@torstar.com

Digital uses of copyrighted Star archival photos (and other Torstar archival
material) that appear on personal websites, social media channels and associate
URLS or personal brands that generate traffic, sales, ad revenue (YouTube,
etc.), personal appearances, merch sales fall under commercial licensing
requirements. Please contact TSS at syndicate@torstar.com to discuss plan uses
prior to posting on a digital URL to avoid unauthorized uses.

The Toronto Star retains the copyright to all Star archival images appearing
either in the Star or in the Toronto Public Library Star photo collection.
License photos from either the Star or TPL's collection, through
www.gettyimages.ca/collections/toronto-star.


TORONTO STAR ARCHIVES


FREE PUBLIC ACCESS:


Free public assess to the Star's historical digital archives is available
through most major Canadian public libraries and public universities including
the Toronto Public Library. Please contact your local public library to see if
they subscribe to the ProQuest digital newspaper archival service, which would
include the Star. If you're a library card holder, you get free access.




IN TORONTO:


If you live in the city, and have a library card, access ProQuest in person at
the Toronto Reference Library at 789 Yonge St. The Toronto Star Newspaper Room
is located on the lower level and includes computer terminals where the archive
can be searched. Please ask the front desk attendant for assistance.

If you have a Toronto Public Library card, you can also access ProQuest
digitally for free through the library website at
www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Entt=RDMEDB0196&R=EDB0196.




NEW - TORONTO STAR ARCHIVES NOW AVAILABLE ON NEWSPAPERS.COM FOR A GLOBAL
AUDIENCE


Researchers and readers globally can now access the Star archives here:
www.newspapers.com.

The Star earns royalties from every subscription to the Star's archives on
Newspapers.com which helps support our award-winning journalism.


ARTICLES OR PAGE REPRINTS

All usage of articles, pages, headlines and excerpts from the Toronto Star,
including logo and branding, must be licensed through PARS International Corp.
This includes use in TV shows, books, films, gallery exhibits, educational
projects and other publications, including digital. A quote based on specific
usage can be obtained from www.parsintl.com/permissions or
www.torontostarreprints.com. PARS International Corp. also produces plaques,
posters and hardcopy reprints of the Toronto Star.


DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE STAR

Toronto Star subscribers get access to three months of the most recent digital
e-editions of the Toronto Star on PressReader. You can buy a print, e-paper
and/or digital subscription to the Toronto Star at www.tsoffers.ca


STARWEEK

Copies of Starweek appear in the Toronto Star every Saturday. If you are
reporting an error, please be sure to include the edition date of the paper, the
page number and as much information as possible. Please note, Starweek is
printed a week ahead of the edition date, and in many cases listing errors are
due to last-minute changes by the network. For updated listings, always visit
www.thestar.com/tv-listings.html


ALL METROLAND DAILY AND COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED CONTENT & ARCHIVAL
MATERIAL:

Torstar Syndication handles licensing for all photos, articles, logos, weblink
permissions and licensing requests for print and digital reuse. Publications
include the Hamilton Spectator, the Waterloo Regional Record, the Niagara Falls
Review, the Welland Tribune, the St. Catharines Standard, the Peterborough
Examiner plus any of our 70+ community newspapers, that can be licensed through
TSS directly. Email TSS requests and inquiries to: syndicate@torstar.com
 * Please provide links and examples of the published material you wish to
   license along with the planned uses.
 * Check local library websites as they may have Metroland photo or archival
   material collections to view for non-commercial, personal uses.
 * Commercial uses that require TSS permission and licensing approval include
   non-profit, charity, educational and many digital efforts that generate
   traffic, views, and non-monetary benefits to an individual or organization.
   If you're not sure, please check with TSS to avoid additional financial
   penalties for unauthorized use of copyrighted material.




VIEW METROLAND ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS ON NEWSPAPERS.COM

TSS has partnered with Newspapers.com to continue to digitalize archival
microfilm and microfiche of Metroland past print publications, both print and
digital. In many cases, the original microfilm print edition copies were
preserved and available through the local library system in these communities.
The only way to see these past print editions was to visit a local library
branch to view on microfilm.

To give digital access to these publications, a public library system must pay
digitalization fees to third-party companies to professionally convert the
microfilm or microfiche to digital PDF pages. Once converted to PDF, these
digital pages needed to be stored (hosted) on a digital platform to allow online
access via the Library's website. Usually libraries would pay annual hosting
fees to a company to do this.

Hosting fees can range from $2,000 to $40,000+ per year depending on the size of
the digital collection. The original copyright owner (the newspaper) earned zero
royalties for use of its content.

With Newspapers.com, Torstar has an ongoing partnership to rapidly digitalize
our microfilm archives and host on its site at no cost to the papers (unlike the
ongoing fees public libraries must pay). The newspaper publisher also earns
royalties on all content viewed on Newspapers.com which helps support our
critical journalism mission. https://www.newspapers.com/

Many Canadian libraries already subscribe to Newspapers.com (owned by
Legacy.com) ensuring free library patron access while ensuring the newspapers
earn royalties. The Toronto Star and the Metroland regional dailies are already
available on many local public library websites via a free newspaper archival
database service which pays royalties to the Star and Metroland.


THE HAMILTON SPECTATOR:

View Hamilton Spectator archival photos available as part of the Hamilton Public
Library's Spectator photo collection here:
https://www.hpl.ca/articles/hamilton-spectator-collection

 * For personal, non-commercial print uses, please contact HPL.
 * For all print commercial licensing uses (including charity, non-profit,
   educational, publishing), HPL will direct your inquiry to TSS to handle
   licensing and permissions. You will need to acquire a digital copy of the
   Spectator photo from HPL before licensing.
 * For all digital uses, including for "personal" social media channels,
   websites, YouTube, etc., contact TSS first for preliminary guidance. If your
   "personal" website, social media URL, other online platform or URL generates
   revenue or other value exchanges benefitting the URL or brand owner, it would
   be a commercial use of Torstar content. If the digital site, platform or
   brand drives traffic/engagement/views that generate merchandise sales,
   speaking engagements, paid endorsements, sponsorships, gifts or other direct
   or indirect revenue derived from Torstar (Star or Metroland) public
   copyrighted material , it would fall under commercial use to be licensed.
   Please contact TSS: syndicate@torstar.com
 * The Spectator archives can also be accessed with a Newspapers.com
   subscription. https://www.newspapers.com/




THE WATERLOO (KITCHENER) REGIONAL RECORD:

View Kitchener Record archival photos available as part of the University of
Waterloo Library's photo negative collection here:
https://digital.library.uwaterloo.ca/uwdl-kwr/kitchener-waterloo-record-photographic-negative-collection?display=grid

 * For personal, non-commercial print uses, please contact the UofW Library.
 * For all print commercial uses check with UofW first and all digital uses,
   commercial or non-commercial, contact TSS for guidance on licensing options:
   syndicate@torstar.com
 * The Records archives can also be accessed with a Newspapers.com subscription.
   https://www.newspapers.com/


THE NIAGARA FALLS REVIEW:



 * See above for licensing & permissions.
 * The Review's archives can be accessed with a Newspapers.com subscription.
   https://www.newspapers.com/


THE ST. CATHARINES STANDARD:



 * See above for licensing & permissions.
 * The Standard's archives can be accessed with a Newspapers.com subscription.
   https://www.newspapers.com/

For other Metroland daily or community publications, check your local library
system for microfilm/microfiche or online newspaper database access to the
publication.


TORSTAR SYNDICATION SERVICES

The largest syndicate in Canada, in operation for more than 90 years, TSS
provides excellent editorial content to newspapers and other media: whether it
is material produced by Torstar writers and columnists; comics and features from
King Features Syndicate, a division of Hearst Corporation; or, content submitted
by Canadian creators on a freelance basis, TSS is proud to provide editors with
quality syndicated material on which they can rely. For more information on
products we offer, please visit tsscontent.ca