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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Sam Grainger
Description	Comic-book panel featuring superhero Astral Man by Sam Grainger, from The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2004)
Source	http://www.billschelly.com/media/SS-AstralMan.jpg
Article	Sam Grainger
Portion used	Detail from a single comic-book panel
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the work of the artist in the artist's own article
Replaceable?	No free alternative available
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It illustrates an educational article about the artist who is the subject of the article. It is historically significant as an illustration of one of the artist's earliest creations, an original character that appeared in the fan press. Moreover, it is an unadorned example of the pencil art of an artist best known for his ink art. The image is used as one of the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work 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 book. It is a low-resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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Comic-book panel featuring superhero Astral Man by Sam Grainger, from The Best of Star-Studded Comics (Hamster Press, 2004)

Source: http://www.billschelly.com/media/SS-AstralMan.jpg

[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.

[edit] Fair use rationale

This iamge meets the following fair-use criteria:

No free alternative possible
Is the only available illustration of this character created by the article's subject and referred to in the article
Is a small, low-resolution image
Does not deprive the subject of ability to make money in any way, and is not being used in misleading manner

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:23, 16 May 2007	216×212 (9 KB)	Tenebrae (Talk \| contribs)	(Comic-book panel featuring superhero Astral Man by Sam Grainger, from ''The Best of Star-Studded Comics'' (Hamster Press, 2004) Source: http://www.billschelly.com/media/SS-AstralMan.jpg)