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Crack Comics #1 (May, 1940), Quality Comics.

[edit] Fair use in Quality Comics

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The image is used as one of the primary means of visual identification of the article topic, a historically important comic-book publisher
2. The image is from the cover of a historically significant comic book depicting American comic books' first masked crime-fighter, The Clock.
3. The use of the comic book cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. The character is copyrighted, and so it is impossible to replace it with an uncopyrighted or freely licensed image.

[edit] Fair use in The Clock

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
2. The image is from the cover of a comic book that represents a historically significant use of the character.
3. The use of the comic book cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. The character is copyrighted, and so it is impossible to replace it with an uncopyrighted or freely licensed image.

[edit] Fair use in Jane Arden

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
2. The image is from the cover of a comic book that represents a historically significant use of the character.
3. The use of the comic book cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. The character is copyrighted, and so it is impossible to replace it with an uncopyrighted or freely licensed image.

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. To the uploader: please add a fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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