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Promotional artwork from the Official Peanuts website at http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/index.html Art by Charles Schulz. This picture is also used on the cover of the Peanuts Anniversary Treasury.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Peanuts

This image, Peanutsgang.gif, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Hiding Talk) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

No free alternative can exist given the likeness of the characters featured in the Peanuts comic strip are subject to trademark law and thus protected;
The image has been released to the public through its placement on a freely accessible website by the copyright holders;
The image features a number of characters featured in the strip, all of which are widely discussed in a critical manner within the article.

[edit] Licensing

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
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 usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale should be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.

To the uploader: This tag should only be used for images of a person, product, or event that is known to have come from a press kit or similar source, for the purpose of reuse by the media. Please add a detailed fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the image and copyright information. Additionally, if the copyright holder has granted permission, please provide further details as to the terms.

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[edit] Previous file history

04:27:59, 4 November 2006 . . Mike1 (Talk | Contribs) . . 386x289 (38,556 bytes) (from http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/index.html {{Promotional}})

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current	06:09, 2 February 2007	386×289 (32 KB)	PNG crusade bot (Talk \| contribs)	(__NOTOC__ Promotional artwork from the Official Peanuts website at http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/index.html Art by Charles Schulz. PEANUTS © 2005, United Feature Syndicate, Inc. ==Fair use rationale for Peanuts== This image)