Starreach1.jpg

Fair use in Star Reach

Cover: Star*Reach #1 (April 1974), published by Mike Friedrich, cover art by Howard Chaykin

Source: http://www.masteringthe.net/tempus-fugitives/images/Starreach1.jpg

This comic book cover image is subject to copyright, and its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

The image is a very small portion of the whole copyrighted work, and could not be used to make unauthorized copies of any of the internal contents of the book.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
The cover image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the image.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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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;
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- the scene or storyline depicted, or
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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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To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:24, 20 November 2017		264 × 376 (34 KB)	Theo's Little Bot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	09:41, 10 March 2010	No thumbnail	325 × 464 (76 KB)	DASHBot (talk \| contribs)	Bot: Rescaling Fair Use Image (shutoff)

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