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Fair use rationales

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Description

Newspaper advertisement for comic strip

Source

scan

Article

The World's Greatest Superheroes

Portion used

advert

Low resolution?

Small size unsuitable to use for high quality reproduction

Purpose of use

Image is used for purposes of illustration in the above-named article, a subject of public interest.

Replaceable?

Image is protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

Other information

Although the picture is originally copyright, it is covered by fair use because:

  1. It is a low resolution copy of an advert for a comic strip, hence, only a small portion of the commercial product;
  2. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to sell or distribute the original comic strip;
  3. Copies of this image could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic strip;
  4. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article. For a visual medium such as comic books, words alone cannot adequately describe the subject;
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The World's Greatest Superheroes//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wgsh.jpgtrue

Summary

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Copyright DC Comics. Scanned from newspaper advertisement.

Licensing

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File history

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:20, 15 January 2018Thumbnail for version as of 02:20, 15 January 2018388 × 257 (44 KB)DatBot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
22:07, 28 May 2006No thumbnail400 × 265 (90 KB)Binarysunrise (talk | contribs)Copywrite DC Comics. Scanned from newspaper advertisement.

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