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[edit] Fair use in Steve Canyon

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

1. It illustrates an educational article about the comic-strip character
2. The image is used as the only means of visual identification of the character
3. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original comic strip 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 comic strip .
4. It is a low-resolution image.
5. The image is less than a single comic-strip panel from decades of daily and Sunday comic strips, and an infinitesimal portion of the commercial product.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

[edit] Fair use in Milton Caniff

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

1. It illustrates an educational articles about the creators of Steve Canyon
2. The image is used as one of the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original comic strip 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 comic strip .
4. It is a low-resolution image.
5. The image is less than a single comic-strip panel from decades of daily and Sunday comic strips, and an infinitesimal portion of the commercial product.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

[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 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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