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EXHIBIT 10.51




     EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) made February 17, 2010 between TIME WARNER INC., a
Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and GARY GINSBERG (“You”).



     You and the Company desire to set forth the terms and conditions of your employment by the
Company and agree as follows:



     1. Term of Employment. Your “term of employment” as this phrase is used throughout
this Agreement shall be for the period beginning with your commencement of employment with the
Company, on or about April 1, 2010, (the “Effective Date”) and ending on December 31, 2013 (the
“Term Date”), subject, however, to earlier termination as set forth in this Agreement.



     2. Employment. During the term of employment, you shall serve as Executive Vice
President of the Company and you shall have the authority, functions, duties, powers and
responsibilities normally associated with such position and such additional authority, functions,
duties, powers and responsibilities as may be assigned to you from time to time by the Company
consistent with your senior position with the Company. During the term of employment, (i) your
services shall be rendered on a substantially full-business time, exclusive basis and you will
apply on a full-business time basis all of your skill and experience to the performance of your
duties, (ii) you shall have no other employment and, without the prior written consent of your
manager or other more senior officer of the Company in your reporting line, no outside business
activities which require the devotion of substantial amounts of your time, (iii) you shall report
to the Chief Executive Officer of the Company, and (iv) the place for the performance of your
services shall be the principal executive offices of the Company in the New York City metropolitan
area, subject to such reasonable travel as may be required in the performance of your duties. The
foregoing shall be subject to the Company’s written policies, as in effect from time to time,
regarding vacations, holidays, illness and the like.



     3. Compensation.



          3.1 Base Salary. The Company shall pay you a base salary at the rate of not less
than $800,000 per annum during the term of employment (“Base Salary”). The Company may increase,
but not decrease, your Base Salary during the term of employment. Base Salary shall be paid in
accordance with the Company’s customary payroll practices.




 









 








          3.2 Bonus. In addition to Base Salary, the Company typically pays its executives an
annual cash bonus (“Bonus”). Although your Bonus is fully discretionary, your target annual Bonus
as a percentage of Base Salary is 200% and your maximum Bonus as a percentage of Base Salary is
300%. Each year, your personal performance will be considered in the context of your executive
duties and any individual goals set for you, and your actual Bonus will be determined. Although as
a general matter the Company expects to pay bonuses at the target level in cases of satisfactory
individual performance, it does not commit to do so, and your Bonus may be negatively affected by
the exercise of the Company’s discretion or by overall Company performance. Your Bonus amount, if
any, will be paid to you between January 1 and March 15 of the calendar year immediately following
the performance year in respect of which such Bonus is earned. 




          3.3 Long Term Incentive Compensation. So long as the term of employment has not
terminated the Company annually shall provide you with long term incentive compensation with a
target value of $750,000 (based on the valuation method used by the Company for its senior
executives) through a combination of stock option grants, restricted stock units, performance
shares or other equity-based awards, cash-based long-term plans or other components as may be
determined by the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors from time to time in
its sole discretion but in any event on a basis and with an allocation no less favorable to you
than is generally made applicable to any other executive vice president of the Company. The target
performance share units awarded in 2010 will be pro-rated based on the Effective Date and the
applicable performance period in accordance with the parameters for the performance share unit
program approved by the Compensation Committee in 2007.




          3.4 Indemnification. You shall be entitled throughout the term of employment (and
after the end of the term of employment, to the extent relating to service during the term of
employment) to the benefit of the indemnification provisions contained on the date hereof in the
Restated Certificate of Incorporation and By-laws of the Company (not including any amendments or
additions after the Effective Date that limit or narrow, but including any that add to or broaden,
the protection afforded to you by those provisions).




     4. Termination.



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          4.1 Termination for Cause. The Company may terminate the term of employment and
all of the Company’s obligations under this Agreement, other than its obligations set forth below
in this Section 4.1, for “cause”. Termination by the Company for “cause” shall mean termination
because of your (a) conviction (treating a nolo contendere plea as a conviction) of a felony
(whether or not any right to appeal has been or may be exercised) other than as a result of a
moving violation or a Limited Vicarious Liability, (b) willful failure or refusal without proper
cause to perform your duties with the Company, including your material obligations under this
Agreement (other than any such failure resulting from your incapacity due to physical or mental
impairment), (c) willful misappropriation or embezzlement or reckless or willful destruction of
Company property having a significant adverse financial effect on the Company or a significant
adverse effect on the Company’s reputation, (d) willful and material breach of any statutory or
common law duty of loyalty to the Company having a significant adverse financial effect on the
Company or a significant adverse effect on the Company’s reputation; or (e) material and willful
breach of any of the covenants provided for in Sections 8 and 9. Such termination shall be
effected by written notice thereof delivered by the Company to you and shall be effective as of the
date of such notice; provided, however, that if (i) such termination is because of your willful
failure or refusal without proper cause to perform your material duties with the Company, including
any one or more of your material obligations under this Agreement, or for intentional and improper
conduct, and (ii) within 30 days following the date of such notice you shall cease your refusal and
shall use your best efforts to perform such obligations or cease such intentional and improper
conduct, the termination shall not be effective. For purposes of this definition of Cause, no act,
or failure to act, on your part shall be considered “willful” or “intentional” unless done, or
omitted to be done, by you not in good faith and without reasonable belief that such action or
omission was in or not opposed to the best interest of the Company. The term “Limited Vicarious
Liability” shall mean any liability that is based on acts of the Company for which you are
responsible or liable solely as a result of your office(s) with the Company; provided that (x) you
are not directly involved in such acts and either had no prior knowledge of such intended actions
or, upon obtaining such knowledge, promptly acted reasonably and in good faith to attempt to
prevent the acts causing such liability or (y) after consulting with the Company’s counsel, you
reasonably believed that no law was being violated by such acts.




          In the event of termination by the Company for cause, without prejudice to any other rights or
remedies that the Company may have at law or in equity, the Company shall have no further
obligation to you other than (i) to pay Base Salary through the effective date of the




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termination of employment (the “Effective Termination Date”), (ii) to pay any Bonus for any
year prior to the year in which such termination occurs that has been determined but not yet paid
as of the Effective Termination Date, and (iii) with respect to any rights you have pursuant to any
insurance or other benefit plans or arrangements of the Company (including rights under Section 7.2
hereof). You hereby disclaim any right to receive a pro rata portion of any Bonus with respect to
the year in which such termination occurs.




          4.2 Termination by You for Material Breach by the Company and Termination by the Company
Without Cause. Unless previously terminated pursuant to any other provision of this Agreement
and unless a Disability Period shall be in effect, you shall have the right, exercisable by written
notice to the Company, to terminate the term of employment under this Agreement with an Effective
Termination Date 30 days after the giving of such notice, if, at the time of the giving of such
notice, the Company is in material breach of its obligations under this Agreement; provided,
however, that, with the exception of clause (i) below, this Agreement shall not so terminate if
such notice is the first such notice of termination delivered by you pursuant to this Section 4.2
and within such 30-day period the Company shall have cured all such material breaches; and provided
further, that such notice is provided to the Company within 90 days after your knowledge of the
occurrence of such material breach. A material breach by the Company shall include, but not be
limited to, (i) the Company violating Section 2 with respect to authority, reporting lines, duties,
or place of employment or (ii) the Company failing to cause any successor to all or substantially
all of the business and assets of the Company expressly to assume the obligations of the Company
under this Agreement.




          The Company shall have the right, exercisable by written notice to you delivered before the
date which is 60 days prior to the Term Date, to terminate your employment under this Agreement
without cause, which notice shall specify the Effective Termination Date. If such notice is
delivered on or after the date which is 60 days prior to the Term Date, the provisions of Section
4.3 shall apply.




               4.2.1 In the event of a termination of employment pursuant to this Section 4.2 (a
“termination without cause”), you shall receive Base Salary and a pro rata portion of your Average
Annual Bonus (as defined below) through the Effective Termination Date. Your Average Annual Bonus
shall be equal to the average of the regular annual bonus amounts (excluding the amount of any
special or spot bonuses) in respect of the two calendar years during the most recent three calendar
years for which the annual bonus received by you from the Company was the greatest; provided,
however, if the Company has previously paid you no




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annual Bonus, then your Average Annual Bonus shall equal your target Bonus and if the Company
has previously paid you one annual Bonus, then your Average Annual Bonus shall equal the average of
such Bonus and your target Bonus. Your pro rata Average Annual Bonus pursuant to this Section
4.2.1 shall be paid to you at the times set forth in Section 4.6.




               4.2.2 After the Effective Termination Date, you shall continue to be treated as an employee
of the Company for a period ending on the date which is twenty-four months after the Effective
Termination Date (the “Severance Term Date”); and during such period you shall be entitled to
receive, whether or not you become disabled during such period but subject to Section 6, (a) Base
Salary (on the Company’s normal payroll payment dates as in effect immediately prior to the
Effective Termination Date) at an annual rate equal to your Base Salary in effect immediately prior
to the notice of termination, and (b) an annual Bonus in respect of each calendar year or portion
thereof (in which case a pro rata portion of such Bonus will be payable) during such period equal
to your Average Annual Bonus. Except as provided in the next sentence, if you accept other
full-time employment during such period or notify the Company in writing of your intention to
terminate your status of being treated as an employee during such period, you shall cease to be
treated as an employee of the Company for purposes of your rights to receive certain
post-termination benefits under Section 7.2 effective upon the commencement of such other
employment or the date specified by you in the notice as the date you wish to terminate your status
of being treated as an employee, whichever is applicable (the “Equity Cessation Date”), and you
shall receive the remaining payments of Base Salary and Bonus pursuant to this Section 4.2.2 at the
times specified in Section 4.6 of the Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you accept
employment with any not-for-profit entity or governmental entity, then you may continue to be
treated as an employee of the Company for purposes of your rights to receive certain
post-termination benefits pursuant to Section 7.2 and you will continue to receive the payments as
provided in the first sentence of this Section 4.2.2; and if you accept full-time employment with
any affiliate of the Company, then the payments provided for in this Section 4.2.2 shall
immediately cease and you shall not be entitled to any further payments. For purposes of this
Agreement, the term “affiliate” shall mean any entity which, directly or indirectly, controls, is
controlled by, or is under common control with, the Company.




          4.3 After the Term Date. If at the Term Date, the term of employment shall not
have been previously terminated pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, no Disability Period
is then in effect and the parties shall not have agreed to an extension or renewal of this
Agreement or on the terms of a new employment agreement, then the term of employment



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shall continue on a month-to-month basis and you shall continue to be employed by the Company
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, subject to termination by either party hereto on 60 days
written notice delivered to the other party (which notice may be delivered by either party at any
time on or after the date which is 60 days prior to the Term Date). If the Company shall terminate
the term of employment on or after the Term Date for any reason (other than for cause as defined in
Section 4.1, in which case Section 4.1 shall apply), which the Company shall have the right to do
so long as no Disability Date (as defined in Section 5) has occurred prior to the delivery by the
Company of written notice of termination, then such termination shall be deemed for all purposes of
this Agreement to be a “termination without cause” under Section 4.2 and the provisions of Sections
4.2.1 and 4.2.2 shall apply.




          4.4 Release. A condition precedent to the Company’s obligation to make or
continue the payments associated with a termination without cause shall be your execution and
delivery of a release in the form attached hereto as Annex A, as such form may be updated as
required by law within 60 days following your Effective Termination Date. If you shall fail to
timely execute and deliver such release, or if you revoke such release as provided therein, then in
lieu of continuing to receive the payments provided for herein, you shall receive a severance
payment determined in accordance with the Company’s policies relating to notice and severance
reduced by the aggregate amount of severance payments paid pursuant to this Agreement, if any,
prior to the date of your refusal to deliver, or revocation of, such release. Any such severance
payments shall be paid in the form of Base Salary continuation payments at the annual rate equal to
your Base Salary in effect immediately prior to your notice of termination, with such amounts paid
until your severance benefit has been exhausted.




          4.5 Mitigation. In the event of a termination without cause under this Agreement,
you shall not be required to take actions in order to mitigate your damages hereunder, unless
Section 280G of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), would apply to any
payments to you by the Company and your failure to mitigate would result in the Company losing tax
deductions to which it would otherwise have been entitled. In such an event, Section 4.7 shall
govern. With respect to the preceding sentences, any payments or rights to which you are entitled
by reason of the termination of employment without cause shall be considered as damages hereunder.
Any obligation to mitigate your damages pursuant to this Section 4.5 shall not be a defense or
offset to the Company’s obligation to pay you in full the amounts provided in this Agreement upon
the occurrence of a termination without cause, at the time provided herein, or the timely and full
performance of any of the Company’s other obligations under this Agreement.




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          4.6 Payments. Payments of Base Salary and Bonus required to be made to you after
any termination shall be made at the same times as such payments otherwise would have been paid to
you pursuant to Sections 3.1 and 3.2 if you had not been terminated, subject to Section 11.17.




          4.7 Limitation on Certain Payments. Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Agreement:




               4.7.1. In the event the Company (or its successor) determines, based on the advice of an
independent nationally recognized public accounting firm engaged by the Company, that part or all
of the consideration, compensation or benefits to be paid to you under this Agreement constitute
“parachute payments” under Section 280G(b)(2) of the Code, then, if the aggregate present value of
such parachute payments, singularly or together with the aggregate present value of any
consideration, compensation or benefits to be paid to you under any other plan, arrangement or
agreement which constitute “parachute payments” (collectively, the “Parachute Amount”) exceeds 2.99
times your “base amount”, as defined in Section 280G(b)(3) of the Code (the “Base Amount”), the
amounts constituting “parachute payments” which would otherwise be payable to you or for your
benefit shall be reduced to the extent necessary so that the Parachute Amount is equal to 2.99
times the Base Amount (the “Reduced Amount”); provided that such amounts shall not be so reduced if
the Company determines, based on the advice of such public accounting firm, that without such
reduction you would be entitled to receive and retain, on a net after tax basis (including, without
limitation, any excise taxes payable under Section 4999 of the Code), an amount which is greater
than the amount, on a net after tax basis, that you would be entitled to retain upon receipt of the
Reduced Amount.




               4.7.2. If the determination made pursuant to Section 4.7.1 results in a reduction of the
payments that would otherwise be paid to you except for the application of Section 4.7.1, such
reduction in payments shall be first applied to reduce any cash severance payments that you would
otherwise be entitled to receive hereunder and shall thereafter be applied to reduce other payments
and benefits in a manner that would not result in subjecting you to additional taxation under
Section 409A of the Code. Within ten days following such determination, the Company shall pay or
distribute to you or for your benefit such amounts as are then due to you under this Agreement and
shall promptly pay or distribute to you or for your benefit in the future such amounts as become
due to you under this Agreement.




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               4.7.3. As a result of the uncertainty in the application of Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code
at the time of a determination hereunder, it is possible that payments will be made by the Company
that should not have been made under Section 4.7.1 (an “Overpayment”). In the event that there is a
final determination by the Internal Revenue Service, or a final determination by a court of
competent jurisdiction, that an Overpayment has been made, the Company shall have no further
liability or obligation to you for any excise taxes, interest or penalty that you are required to
pay as a result of such final determination.




     5. Disability.



          5.1 Disability Payments. If during the term of employment and prior to
the delivery of any notice of termination without cause, you become physically or mentally
disabled, whether totally or partially, so that you are prevented from performing your usual duties
for a period of six consecutive months, or for shorter periods aggregating six months in any
twelve-month period, the Company shall, nevertheless, continue to pay your full compensation
through the last day of the sixth consecutive month of disability or the date on which the shorter
periods of disability shall have equaled a total of six months in any twelve-month period (such
last day or date being referred to herein as the “Disability Date”), subject to Section 11.17. If
you have not resumed your usual duties on or prior to the Disability Date, the Company shall pay
you a pro rata Bonus (based on your Average Annual Bonus) for the year in which the Disability Date
occurs and thereafter shall pay you disability benefits for the period ending on the later of (i)
the Term Date or (ii) the date which is twelve months after the Disability Date (in the case of
either (i) or (ii), the “Disability Period”), in an annual amount equal to 75% of (a) your Base
Salary at the time you become disabled and (b) the Average Annual Bonus, in each case, subject to
Section 11.17.




          5.2 Recovery from Disability. If during the Disability Period you shall fully
recover from your disability, the Company shall have the right (exercisable within 60 days after
notice from you of such recovery), but not the obligation, to restore you to full-time service at
full compensation. If the Company elects to restore you to full-time service, then this Agreement
shall continue in full force and effect in all respects and the Term Date shall not be extended by
virtue of the occurrence of the Disability Period. If the Company elects not to restore you to
full-time service, you shall be entitled to obtain other employment, subject, however, to the
following: (i) you shall perform advisory services during any balance of the Disability Period;
and (ii) you shall comply with the provisions of Sections 8 and 9 during the




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Disability Period. The advisory services referred to in clause (i) of the immediately
preceding sentence shall consist of rendering advice concerning the business, affairs and
management of the Company as requested by the Chief Executive Officer of the Company but you shall
not be required to devote more than five days (up to eight hours per day) each month to such
services, which shall be performed at a time and place mutually convenient to both parties. Any
income from such other employment shall not be applied to reduce the Company’s obligations under
this Agreement.




          5.3 Other Disability Provisions. The Company shall be entitled to deduct from all
payments to be made to you during the Disability Period pursuant to this Section 5 an amount equal
to all disability payments received by you during the Disability Period from Worker’s Compensation,
Social Security and disability insurance policies maintained by the Company; provided, however,
that for so long as, and to the extent that, proceeds paid to you from such disability insurance
policies are not includible in your income for federal income tax purposes, the Company’s deduction
with respect to such payments shall be equal to the product of (i) such payments and (ii) a
fraction, the numerator of which is one and the denominator of which is one less the maximum
marginal rate of federal income taxes applicable to individuals at the time of receipt of such
payments. All payments made under this Section 5 after the Disability Date are intended to be
disability payments, regardless of the manner in which they are computed. Except as otherwise
provided in this Section 5, the term of employment shall continue during the Disability Period and
you shall be entitled to all of the rights and benefits provided for in this Agreement, except that
Sections 4.2 and 4.3 shall not apply during the Disability Period, and unless the Company has
restored you to full-time service at full compensation prior to the end of the Disability Period,
the term of employment shall end and you shall cease to be an employee of the Company at the end of
the Disability Period and shall not be entitled to notice and severance or to receive or be paid
for any accrued vacation time or unused sabbatical.




     6. Death. If you die during the term of employment, this Agreement and all
obligations of the Company to make any payments hereunder shall terminate except that your estate
(or a designated beneficiary) shall be entitled to receive Base Salary to the last day of the month
in which your death occurs and Bonus compensation (at the time bonuses are normally paid) based on
the Average Annual Bonus, but prorated according to the number of whole or partial months you were
employed by the Company in such calendar year. 



     7. Other Benefits.



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          7.1 General Availability. To the extent that (a) you are eligible under the
general provisions thereof (including without limitation, any plan provision providing for
participation to be limited to persons who were employees of the Company or certain of its
subsidiaries prior to a specific point in time) and (b) the Company maintains such plan or program
for the benefit of its executives, during the term of your employment with the Company, you shall
be eligible to participate in any savings plan, or similar plan or program and in any group life
insurance, hospitalization, medical, dental, accident, disability or similar plan or program of the
Company now existing or established hereafter on a basis no less favorable to you than is generally
provided to any other executive vice president of the Company.




          7.2 Benefits After a Termination or Disability. After the Effective Termination
Date of a termination of employment pursuant to Section 4.2 and prior to the Severance Term Date or
during the Disability Period, you shall continue to be treated as an employee of the Company for
purposes of eligibility to participate in the Company’s health and welfare benefit plans other than
disability programs and to receive the health and welfare benefits (other than disability programs)
required to be provided to you under this Agreement to the extent such health and welfare benefits
are maintained in effect by the Company for its executives. After the Effective Termination Date
of a termination of employment pursuant to Section 4 or during a Disability Period, you shall not
be entitled to any additional awards or grants under any stock option, restricted stock or other
stock-based incentive plan and you shall not be entitled to continue elective deferrals in or
accrue additional benefits under any qualified or nonqualified retirement programs maintained by
the Company. At the Severance Term Date, your rights to benefits and payments under any health and
welfare benefit plans or any insurance or other death benefit plans or arrangements of the Company
shall be determined in accordance with the terms and provisions of such plans. At the Severance
Term Date or, if earlier, the Equity Cessation Date, your rights to benefits and payments under any
stock option, restricted stock, stock appreciation right, bonus unit, management incentive or other
long-term incentive plan of the Company shall be determined in accordance with the terms and
provisions of such plans and any agreements under which such stock options, restricted stock or
other awards were granted. However, notwithstanding the foregoing or any more restrictive
provisions of such plan or agreement, if your employment is terminated as a result of a termination
pursuant to Section 4.2, then, subject to the application of any more favorable terms of the
applicable stock option agreement, (i) all stock options to purchase shares of Time Warner Common
Stock shall continue to vest, and any such vested stock options shall remain exercisable (but not
beyond the term of such stock options) through the earlier of the Severance Term Date or the Equity




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Cessation Date; (ii) except if you shall then qualify for retirement under the terms of the
applicable stock option agreement and would receive more favorable treatment under the terms of the
stock option agreement, (x) all stock options to purchase shares of Time Warner Common Stock
granted to you on or after the date this Agreement is executed (such stock options, the “Term
Options”) that would have vested on or before the later of the Term Date and the Severance Term
Date (or the date that is comparable to the Severance Term Date under any employment agreement that
amends, replaces or supersedes this Agreement) shall vest and become immediately exercisable on the
earlier of the Severance Term Date or the Equity Cessation Date, and (y) all your vested Term
Options shall remain exercisable for a period of three years after the earlier of the Severance
Term Date or the Equity Cessation Date (but not beyond the term of such stock options); and (iii)
the Company shall not be permitted to determine that your employment was terminated for
“unsatisfactory performance within the meaning of any stock option agreement between you and the
Company. With respect to awards of restricted stock units (“RSUs”) held at the Effective
Termination Date of a termination of employment pursuant to Section 4.2, subject to potential
further delay in payment pursuant to Section 11.17, (i) if you are eligible for retirement
treatment at the Effective Termination Date, then for all awards of RSUs that contain special
accelerated vesting upon retirement, the vesting of the RSUs will accelerate upon, and the shares
of Time Warner Common Stock will be paid to you promptly following, the Effective Termination Date,
and (ii) if you are not eligible for retirement treatment at the Effective Termination Date, then
the treatment of the RSUs will be determined at the earlier of the Severance Term Date or the
Equity Cessation Date in accordance with the terms of the applicable award agreement(s), but the
shares of Time Warner Common Stock underlying any vested RSUs will not be paid to you until
promptly following the next regular vesting date(s) for such award(s) of RSUs.




          7.3 Payments in Lieu of Other Benefits. In the event the term of employment and
your employment with the Company is terminated pursuant to any section of this Agreement, you shall
not be entitled to notice and severance under the Company’s general employee policies or to be paid
for any accrued vacation time or unused sabbatical, the payments provided for in such sections
being in lieu thereof.




          7.4 Life Insurance. During your employment with the Company, the Company shall
(i) provide you with $50,000 of group life insurance and (ii) pay you annually an amount equal to
two times the premium you would have to pay to obtain life insurance under the Group Universal Life
(“GUL”) insurance program made available by the Company in an amount equal to $3,000,000. The
Company shall pay you such amount no later than March 15 of the calendar




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year following any calendar year in which you are entitled to this amount. You shall be under
no obligation to use the payments made by the Company pursuant to the preceding sentence to
purchase GUL insurance or to purchase any other life insurance. If the Company discontinues its
GUL insurance program, the Company shall nevertheless make the payments required by this Section 7
as if such program were still in effect. The payments made to you hereunder shall not be
considered as “salary” or “compensation” or “bonus” in determining the amount of any payment under
any retirement, profit-sharing or other benefit plan of the Company or any subsidiary of the
Company.




     8. Protection of Confidential Information; Non-Compete.



          8.1 Confidentiality Covenant. You acknowledge that your employment by the Company
(which, for purposes of this Section 8 shall mean Time Warner Inc. and its affiliates) will,
throughout the term of employment, bring you into close contact with many confidential affairs of
the Company, including information about costs, profits, markets, sales, products, key personnel,
pricing policies, operational methods, technical processes and other business affairs and methods
and other information not readily available to the public, and plans for future development. You
further acknowledge that the services to be performed under this Agreement are of a special,
unique, unusual, extraordinary and intellectual character. You further acknowledge that the
business of the Company is international in scope, that its products and services are marketed
throughout the world, that the Company competes in nearly all of its business activities with other
entities that are or could be located in nearly any part of the world and that the nature of your
services, position and expertise are such that you are capable of competing with the Company from
nearly any location in the world. In recognition of the foregoing, you covenant and agree:




               8.1.1 You shall keep secret all confidential matters of the Company and shall not disclose
such matters to anyone outside of the Company, or to anyone inside the Company who does not have a
need to know or use such information, and shall not use such information for personal benefit or
the benefit of a third party, either during or after the term of employment, except with the
Company’s written consent, provided that (i) you shall have no such obligation to the extent such
matters are or become publicly known other than as a result of your breach of your obligations
hereunder and (ii) you may, after giving prior notice to the Company to the extent practicable
under the circumstances, disclose such matters to the extent required by applicable laws or
governmental regulations or judicial or regulatory process;




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               8.1.2 You shall deliver promptly to the Company on termination of your employment, or at any
other time the Company may so request, all memoranda, notes, records, reports and other documents
(and all copies thereof) relating to the Company’s business, which you obtained while employed by,
or otherwise serving or acting on behalf of, the Company and which you may then possess or have
under your control; and




               8.1.3 If the term of employment is terminated pursuant to Section 4, for a period of one
year after the Effective Termination Date, without the prior written consent of the Company, you
shall not employ, and shall not cause any entity of which you are an affiliate to employ, any
person who was a full-time employee of the Company at the date of such termination or within six
months prior thereto but such prohibition shall not apply to your secretary or executive assistant
or to any other employee eligible to receive overtime pay.




          8.2 Non-Compete. During the term of employment hereunder and for a period of
twelve months after (i) the effective date of your retirement or other voluntary termination of
employment hereunder or (ii) the Effective Termination Date of a termination of employment pursuant
to Section 4, you shall not, directly or indirectly, without the prior written consent of the Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, render any services to, or act in any capacity for, any
Competitive Entity, or acquire any interest of any type in any Competitive Entity; provided,
however, that the foregoing shall not be deemed to prohibit you from acquiring, (a) solely as an
investment and through market purchases, securities of any Competitive Entity which are registered
under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and which are publicly traded,
so long as you are not part of any control group of such Competitive Entity and such securities,
including converted securities, do not constitute more than one percent (1%) of the outstanding
voting power of that entity and (b) securities of any Competitive Entity that are not publicly
traded, so long as you are not part of any control group of such Competitive Entity and such
securities, including converted securities, do not constitute more than three percent (3%) of the
outstanding voting power of that entity. For purposes of the foregoing, the following shall be
deemed to be a Competitive Entity: (x) during the period that you are actively employed with the
Company hereunder (and during the Disability Period, if applicable), any person or entity that
engages in any line of business that is substantially the same as either (i) any line of business
which the Company engages in, conducts or, to your knowledge, has definitive plans to engage in or
conduct or (ii) any operating business that is engaged in or conducted by the Company as to which,
to your knowledge, the Company covenants, in writing, not to compete with in connection with the
disposition of such business, and (y) after the termination of your employment hereunder (or after
the Disability Period, if applicable), any of the following: CBS




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Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, General Electric Corporation, Google Inc., Microsoft
Corporation, The News Corporation Ltd., Sony Corporation, Comcast Corporation, Viacom Inc. and
Yahoo! Inc., and their respective subsidiaries and affiliates and any successor to the internet
service provider, media or entertainment businesses thereof.




     9. Ownership of Work Product. You acknowledge that during the term of employment,
you may conceive of, discover, invent or create inventions, improvements, new contributions,
literary property, material, ideas and discoveries, whether patentable or copyrightable or not (all
of the foregoing being collectively referred to herein as “Work Product”), and that various
business opportunities shall be presented to you by reason of your employment by the Company. You
acknowledge that all of the foregoing shall be owned by and belong exclusively to the Company and
that you shall have no personal interest therein, provided that they are either related in any
manner to the business (commercial or experimental) of the Company, or are, in the case of Work
Product, conceived or made on the Company’s time or with the use of the Company’s facilities or
materials, or, in the case of business opportunities, are presented to you for the possible
interest or participation of the Company. You shall (i) promptly disclose any such Work Product
and business opportunities to the Company; (ii) assign to the Company, upon request and without
additional compensation, the entire rights to such Work Product and business opportunities; (iii)
sign all papers necessary to carry out the foregoing; and (iv) give testimony in support of your
inventorship or creation in any appropriate case. You agree that you will not assert any rights to
any Work Product or business opportunity as having been made or acquired by you prior to the date
of this Agreement except for Work Product or business opportunities, if any, disclosed to and
acknowledged by the Company in writing prior to the date hereof.



     10. Notices. All notices, requests, consents and other communications required or
permitted to be given under this Agreement shall be effective only if given in writing and shall be
deemed to have been duly given if delivered personally or sent by a nationally recognized overnight
delivery service, or mailed first-class, postage prepaid, by registered or certified mail, as
follows (or to such other or additional address as either party shall designate by notice in
writing to the other in accordance herewith):



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          10.1 If to the Company:




Time Warner Inc.

One Time Warner Center

New York, New York 10019

Attention: Senior Vice President — Global

Compensation and Benefits




(with a copy, similarly addressed

but Attention: General Counsel)




          10.2 If to you, to your residence address set forth on the records of the Company.




     11. General.




          11.1 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed and enforced
in accordance with the substantive laws of the State of New York applicable to agreements made and
to be performed entirely in New York.




          11.2 Captions. The section headings contained herein are for reference purposes
only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or interpretation of this Agreement.




          11.3 Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including Annexes A and B, set forth the
entire agreement and understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter of this Agreement
and supersedes all prior agreements, arrangements and understandings, written or oral, between the
parties.




          11.4 No Other Representations. No representation, promise or inducement has been
made by either party that is not embodied in this Agreement, and neither party shall be bound by or
be liable for any alleged representation, promise or inducement not so set forth.




          11.5 Assignability. This Agreement and your rights and obligations
hereunder may not be assigned by you and except as specifically contemplated in this Agreement,
neither you, your legal representative nor any beneficiary designated by you shall have any right,
without the prior written consent of the Company, to assign, transfer, pledge, hypothecate,
anticipate or commute to any person or entity any payment due in the future




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pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, and any attempt to do so shall be void and shall not
be recognized by the Company. The Company may not assign this Agreement or its rights or
obligations hereunder except that the Company shall assign its rights together with its obligations
hereunder in connection with any sale, transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of
the Company’s business and assets, whether by merger, purchase of stock or assets or otherwise, as
the case may be. Upon any such assignment, the Company shall cause any such successor expressly to
assume such obligations, and such rights and obligations shall inure to and be binding upon any
such successor.




          11.6 Amendments; Waivers. This Agreement may be amended, modified, superseded,
cancelled, renewed or extended and the terms or covenants hereof may be waived only by written
instrument executed by both of the parties hereto, or in the case of a waiver, by the party waiving
compliance. The failure of either party at any time or times to require performance of any
provision hereof shall in no manner affect such party’s right at a later time to enforce the same.
No waiver by either party of the breach of any term or covenant contained in this Agreement, in any
one or more instances, shall be deemed to be, or construed as, a further or continuing waiver of
any such breach, or a waiver of the breach of any other term or covenant contained in this
Agreement.




          11.7 Specific Remedy. In addition to such other rights and remedies as the Company
may have at equity or in law with respect to any breach of this Agreement, if you commit a material
breach of any of the provisions of Sections 8.1, 8.2, or 9, the Company shall have the right and
remedy to have such provisions specifically enforced by any court having equity jurisdiction, it
being acknowledged and agreed that any such breach or threatened breach will cause irreparable
injury to the Company.




          11.8 Resolution of Disputes. Except as provided in the preceding Section 11.7, any
dispute or controversy arising with respect to this Agreement and your employment hereunder
(whether based on contract or tort or upon any federal, state or local statute, including but not
limited to claims asserted under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964, as amended, any state Fair Employment Practices Act and/or the Americans with
Disability Act) shall, at the election of either you or the Company, be submitted to JAMS/ENDISPUTE
for resolution in arbitration in accordance with the rules and procedures of JAMS/ENDISPUTE.
Either party shall make such election by delivering written notice thereof to the other party at
any time (but not later than 45 days after such party receives notice of the commencement of any
administrative or regulatory proceeding




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or the filing of any lawsuit relating to any such dispute or controversy) and thereupon any
such dispute or controversy shall be resolved only in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 11.8. Any such proceedings shall take place in New York City before a single arbitrator
(rather than a panel of arbitrators), pursuant to any streamlined or expedited (rather than a
comprehensive) arbitration process, before a non-judicial (rather than a judicial) arbitrator, and
in accordance with an arbitration process which, in the judgment of such arbitrator, shall have the
effect of reasonably limiting or reducing the cost of such arbitration. The resolution of any such
dispute or controversy by the arbitrator appointed in accordance with the procedures of
JAMS/ENDISPUTE shall be final and binding. Judgment upon the award rendered by such arbitrator may
be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof, and the parties consent to the jurisdiction of
the New York courts for this purpose. The prevailing party shall be entitled to recover the costs
of arbitration (including reasonable attorneys fees and the fees of experts) from the losing party.
If at the time any dispute or controversy arises with respect to this Agreement, JAMS/ENDISPUTE is
not in business or is no longer providing arbitration services, then the American Arbitration
Association shall be substituted for JAMS/ENDISPUTE for the purposes of the foregoing provisions of
this Section 11.8. If you shall be the prevailing party in such arbitration, the Company shall
promptly pay, upon your demand, all legal fees, court costs and other costs and expenses incurred
by you in any legal action seeking to enforce the award in any court.




          11.9 Beneficiaries. Whenever this Agreement provides for any payment to your
estate, such payment may be made instead to such beneficiary or beneficiaries as you may designate
by written notice to the Company. You shall have the right to revoke any such designation and to
redesignate a beneficiary or beneficiaries by written notice to the Company (and to any applicable
insurance company) to such effect.




          11.10 No Conflict. You represent and warrant to the Company that this Agreement is
legal, valid and binding upon you and the execution of this Agreement and the performance of your
obligations hereunder does not and will not constitute a breach of, or conflict with the terms or
provisions of, any agreement or understanding to which you are a party (including, without
limitation, any other employment agreement). The Company represents and warrants to you that this
Agreement is legal, valid and binding upon the Company and the execution of this Agreement and the
performance of the Company’s obligations hereunder does not and will not constitute a breach of, or
conflict with the terms or provisions of, any agreement or understanding to which the Company is a
party.




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          11.11 Conflict of Interest. Attached as Annex B and made part of this Agreement is
the Time Warner Corporate Standards of Business Conduct. You confirm that you have read,
understand and will comply with the terms thereof and any reasonable amendments thereto. In
addition, as a condition of your employment under this Agreement, you understand that you may be
required periodically to confirm that you have read, understand and will comply with the Standards
of Business Conduct as the same may be revised from time to time.




          11.12 Withholding Taxes. Payments made to you pursuant to this Agreement shall be
subject to withholding and social security taxes and other ordinary and customary payroll
deductions.




          11.13 No Offset. Neither you nor the Company shall have any right to offset any
amounts owed by one party hereunder against amounts owed or claimed to be owed to such party,
whether pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, and you and the Company shall make all the
payments provided for in this Agreement in a timely manner.




          11.14 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be held invalid, the
remainder of this Agreement shall not be affected thereby; provided, however, that the parties
shall negotiate in good faith with respect to equitable modification of the provision or
application thereof held to be invalid. To the extent that it may effectively do so under
applicable law, each party hereby waives any provision of law which renders any provision of this
Agreement invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect.




          11.15 Survival. Sections 3.4, 4.1, 4.3 7.3 and 8 through 11 shall survive any
termination of the term of employment by the Company for cause pursuant to Section 4.1. Sections
3.4, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 7 through 11 shall survive any termination of the term of
employment pursuant to Sections 4.2, 5 or 6.




          11.16 Definitions. The following terms are defined in this Agreement in the places
indicated:




affiliate — Section 4.2.2

Average Annual Bonus — Section 4.2.1

Base Amount — Section 4.7.1

Base Salary — Section 3.1

Bonus — Section 3.2

cause — Section 4.1

Code — Section 4.5




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Company — the first paragraph on page 1 and Section 8.1

Competitive Entity — Section 8.2

Disability Date — Section 5

Disability Period — Section 5

Effective Date — the first paragraph on page 1

Effective Termination Date — Section 4.1

Equity Cessation Date — Section 4.2.2

Overpayment — Section 4.7.3

Parachute Amount — Section 4.7.1

Reduced Amount — Section 4.7.1

Severance Term Date — Section 4.2.2

Term Date — Section 1

term of employment — Section 1

termination without cause — Section 4.2.1

Work Product — Section 9




          
11.17 Compliance with IRC Section 409A. This Agreement is intended to comply with
Section 409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended
(the “Code”) and will be
interpreted in a manner intended to comply with Section 409A of the Code. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, (i) if at the time of your termination of employment with the Company you
are a “specified employee” as defined in Section 409A of the Code (and any related regulations or
other pronouncements thereunder) and the deferral of the commencement of any payments or benefits
otherwise payable hereunder as a result of such termination of employment is necessary in order to
prevent any accelerated or additional tax under Section 409A of the Code, then the Company will
defer the commencement of the payment of any such payments or benefits hereunder (without any
reduction in such payments or benefits ultimately paid or provided to you) until the date that is
six months following your termination of employment with the Company (or the earliest date as is
permitted under Section 409A of the Code) and (ii) if any other payments of money or other benefits
due to you hereunder could cause the application of an accelerated or additional tax under Section
409A of the Code, such payments or other benefits shall be deferred if deferral will make such
payment or other benefits compliant under Section 409A of the Code, or otherwise such payment or
other benefits shall be restructured, to the extent possible, in a manner, determined by the
Company, that does not cause such an accelerated or additional tax. To the extent any
reimbursements or in-kind benefits due to you under this Agreement constitutes “deferred
compensation” under Section 409A of the Code, any such reimbursements or in-kind benefits shall be
paid to you in a manner consistent with Treas. Reg. Section 1.409A-3(i)(1)(iv). Each payment made
under this Agreement shall be designated as a “separate payment” within the meaning of Section 409A
of the Code. References in this Agreement to your termination of active employment or your




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Effective Termination Date shall be deemed to refer to the date upon which you have a
“separation from service” with the Company and its affiliates within the meaning of Section 409A of
the Code. The Company shall consult with you in good faith regarding the implementation of the
provisions of this Section 11.17; provided that neither the Company nor any of its employees or
representatives shall have any liability to you with respect to thereto.




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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Agreement as of the date first above
written.



	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	TIME WARNER INC.
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By
	 	/s/ Mark Wainger
	 

	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	/s/ Gary Ginsberg
	 

	 	 
	 

	 	Gary Ginsberg






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ANNEX A



RELEASE



This
Release is made by and among __________________
(“You” or “Your”) and TIME WARNER INC. (the “Company”), One Time
Warner Center, New York, New York 10019 as of the date set forth below in connection with the
Employment Agreement dated ____________, and effective as of ____________, and the letter agreement (the “Letter Agreement”
between You and the Company dated as of
____________ (as so amended, the “Employment Agreement”), and in
association with the termination of your employment with the Company.



In consideration of payments made to You and other benefits to be received by You by the Company
and other benefits to be received by You pursuant to the Employment Agreement, as further reflected
in the Letter Agreement, You, being of lawful age, do hereby release and forever discharge the
Company, its successors, related companies, Affiliates, officers, directors, shareholders,
subsidiaries, agents, employees, heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, benefit plans
(including but not limited to the Time Warner Inc. Severance Pay Plan For Regular Employees)
benefit plan sponsors and benefit plan administrators of and from any and all actions, causes of
action, claims, or demands for general, special or punitive damages, attorney’s fees, expenses, or
other compensation or damages (collectively, “Claims”), whether known or unknown, which in any way
relate to or arise out of your employment with the Company or the termination of Your employment,
which You may now have under any federal, state or local law, regulation or order, including
without limitation, Claims related to any stock options held by You or granted to You by the
Company that are scheduled to vest subsequent to Your termination of employment and Claims under
the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (with the exception of Claims that may arise after the
date You sign this Release, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, through and including the date of this Release; provided,
however, that the execution of this Release shall not prevent You from bringing a lawsuit against
the Company to enforce its obligations under the Employment Agreement and this Release.



Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, nothing in this Release shall prohibit or restrict You
from (i) making any disclosure of information required by law; (ii) filing a charge with,
providing information to, or testifying or otherwise assisting in any investigation or proceeding
brought by, any federal regulatory or law enforcement agency or legislative body, any
self-regulatory organization, or the Company’s legal, compliance or human resources officers; (iii)
filing, testifying or participating in or otherwise assisting in a proceeding relating to an
alleged violation of any federal, state or municipal law relating to fraud or any rule or
regulation of the Securities and Exchange Commission or any self-regulatory organization; or (iv)
challenging the validity of my release of claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.
Provided, however, You acknowledge that You cannot recover any monetary damages or equitable relief
in connection with a charge




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brought by You or through any action brought by a third party with respect to the Claims released
and waived in the Agreement. Further, notwithstanding the above, You are not waiving or releasing:
(i) any claims arising after the Effective Date of this Agreement; (iii) any claims for enforcement
of this Agreement; (iii) any rights or claims You may have to workers compensation or unemployment
benefits; (iv) claims for accrued, vested benefits under any employee benefit plan of the Company
in accordance with the terms of such plans and applicable law; and/or (v) any claims or rights
which cannot be waived by law.



You further state that You have reviewed this Release, that You know and understand its contents,
and that You have executed it voluntarily.



You
acknowledge that You have been given ___ days to review this Release and to sign it. You also
acknowledge that by signing this Release You may be giving up valuable legal rights and that You
have been advised to consult with an attorney. You understand that You have the right to revoke
Your consent to the Release for seven days following Your signing of the Release. You further
understand that You will cease to receive any payments or benefits under this Agreement (except as
set forth in Section 4.4 of the Agreement) if You do not sign this Release or if You revoke Your
consent to the Release within seven days after signing the Release. The Release shall not become
effective or enforceable with respect to claims under the Age Discrimination Act until the
expiration of the seven-day period following Your signing of this Release. To revoke, You send a
written statement of revocation by certified mail, return receipt requested, or by hand delivery.
If You do not revoke, the Release shall become effective on the eighth day after You sign it.




	 	 	 	 
	Accepted and Agreed to:
	 
	 	 
	 
	 	 
	 
	 
	 	 
	Dated:
	 	 
	 

	 	 





 









 






ANNEX B




TIME WARNER CORPORATE

STANDARDS OF BUSINESS CONDUCT