Fair use rationale
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| Description |
Cover of The 4-Fisted Misadventures of Tug & Buster graphic novel collection by Marc Hempel |
|---|---|
| Source | |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
Full front cover as published. |
| Low resolution? |
500 x 500 px size unsuitable to use for high end reproduction. |
| Purpose of use |
Illustration of the work of a visual artist whose work is in copyright |
| Replaceable? |
No free use image available. The artist is alive, so all his works are in copyright. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Marc Hempel//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tug%26buster.jpgtrue | |
Licensing
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This image is from a comic strip, webcomic or from the cover or interior of a comic book. The copyright for this image is most likely owned by either the publisher of the comic or the writer(s) and/or artist(s) which produced the comic in question. It is believed that
- the use of low-resolution images of the cover of a comic book to illustrate:
- the issue of the comic book in question;
- the periodical comic book series of which this issue is a part; or
- the copyrighted comic book character(s) or group(s) on the cover of the issue in question;
- or the use of low-resolution images of a single panel from a comic strip or an interior page of a comic book to illustrate:
- the scene or storyline depicted, or
- the copyrighted character(s) or group(s) depicted on the excerpted panel in question;
- where no free alternative exists or can be created,
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics/copyright for more information.