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[edit] Fair use rationales

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Batroc the Leaper
Description

Panel from Captain America #251, November 1980, writer Roger Stern, art John Byrne, copyright Marvel Comics

Source

Secret Wars on Infinite Earths (scan)

Article

Batroc the Leaper

Portion used

panel

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 a comic book panel, 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 book;
  3. Copies of this image could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic book;
  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;

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current16:54, 18 January 2008448×218 (43 KB)Freak104 (Talk | contribs) (I don't know fair use rationale, but I'll have a friend put it in for me. {{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Location= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }})

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