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[edit] Licensing

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Charlie Brown":

To illustrate the object in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia ([1]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

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:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed fair use rationale.

This image deplicts Charlie Brown, from the Peanuts comic (now called Peanuts Classics Dailies) illustrated by Charles Schulz (or his hired illustrators). A Google image search for "Charlie Brown" leads to comics.com website with a nearly identical image, so likely the image was downloaded from that site. The source should be named as www.comics.com since you can get to it easier and not United Feature Syndicate, Inc. (The image is not easily found at the UFS website).
The image is copyrighted by United Feature Syndicate Inc. since they publish the comics producted .
The image is 180px W by 265H and the JPEG file size is 15492 bytes. The source (at the time of upload) was reported as being United Feature Syndicate Inc., however I searched of the website today I can not get to the this image.
The term of use at the Comics.com say "The contents of this web site (the "UFS Materials") may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, ... in whole or in part, for any purpose other than individual viewing of this web site, without the express prior written consent of UFS."

The image is no longer on the comics.com web site. If this is the source of the image, the legal disclaimer or "terms of use policy" is not sufficient to prevent the image from being used under the fair use provisions of U.S. Copyright law. Web site disclaimers do not qualify as a contract wherein two parties enter into a mutually beneficial agreement. Therefore, the disclaimer can only assert rights the web site operator has under copyright law, which permits fair use of copied materials.

[edit] Fair use for Image:CharlieBrown.jpg

Fair use rationale include:

The image is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Charles Schulz.
The image shows in simplest form a famous character from the Visual_arts of the United States.
Inclusion in the articles Charlie Brown and Peanuts adds significantly to the articles because it shows the subject of the articles.
The purpose and character of the use of the image is for nonprofit educational purposes.
The image is only a small sample of the Peanuts comic strips which published thousands of times for over 50 years.
The effect of the use upon the potential market for and value of the copyrighted work will not be reduced by the use of the image in Wikipedia. Reason being is that this image does not include a storyline which is one of the factors in the value of the Peanuts material.

[edit] Fair use for Peanuts

Fair use rationale include:

The image is of a character, copyrighted and subject to trademark and intellectual property laws, and thus no free image could be created to illustrate the character.
The image is of a reduced size which will not reproduce well, and thus does not likely infringe upon the copyright holder's rights to commercially exploit the character's likeness.
The image is only a small sample of the Peanuts comic strips which published thousands of times for over 50 years.
the image's use in the article is to illustrate and identify to the reader the character depicted, who is discussed at depth within the article.

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