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Excerpted from Liberty Meadows Sunday strip, copyrighted by Frank Cho.

Although this is still under copyright, inclusion here qualifies for Fair Use under US Copyright law because:

It is used for a non-commercial and hopefully educational purpose.
It is representative of the artist, quite literally and is specifically tied to the text.
It is only a small part of the overall work, i.e. an excerpt (perhaps 15%) from a single day's installment.
It should not affect the commercial viability of the copyright.

[edit] Licensing

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

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- 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.

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