Fair use rationale
[edit]| Description |
Cover of Terry-Toons Comics #61 (Oct. 1947), St. John Publishing (defunct co,). Cover artist unknown. |
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| Source | |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
Full front cover as published. |
| Low resolution? |
400px size unsuitable to use for high end reproduction. |
| Purpose of use |
Illustration of a specific point within the article (example of ancillary licensing) as well as an illustration depicting one of the company's primary characters, Mighty Mouse. Animation and comic books are visual media, and no comprehensive understanding of the subject is possible without visual examples of the subject. |
| Replaceable? |
No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted character, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained. |
| Other information |
© 1947 St. John Publications |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Terrytoons//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Terry-Toons61.jpgtrue | |
Licensing
[edit]- 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.