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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Blackmark
Description	Cover, Blackmark, Bantam paperback novel, 1971, art by Gil Kane
Source	http://www.vaultauctions.com/images/auctions/9/s-L600.JPG
Article	Blackmark
Portion used	Full cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the single, historically significant publication that is the subject of the article. Graphic novels are a visual medium, and it is difficult if not impossible to properly describe the comic without an illustration of it.
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 graphic novel from which the cover illustration was taken. The graphic novel is historically significant as one of the first modern graphic novels, or arguably the first, as discussed within the article. The image is used as the only 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 graphic novel. 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.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Gil Kane
Description	Cover, Blackmark, Bantam paperback novel, 1971, art by Gil Kane
Source	http://www.vaultauctions.com/images/auctions/9/s-L600.JPG
Article	Gil Kane
Portion used	Full cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the work of the writer-artist-creator in his own article. Graphic novels are a visual medium, and it is difficult if not impossible to properly describe the comic without an illustration of it.
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 writer-artist-creator. This graphic novel is historically significant as one of the first modern graphic novels, or arguably the first, as discussed within the article. 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 graphic novel. 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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Cover, Blackmark, Bantam paperback novel, 1971, art by Gil Kane

Source: http://www.vaultauctions.com/images/auctions/9/s-L600.JPG

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers

to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
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. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:40, 28 November 2005	257×420 (45 KB)	Tenebrae (Talk \| contribs)	(Cover, ''Blackmark'', Bantam paperback novel, 1971, art by Gil Kane Source: http://www.vaultauctions.com/images/auctions/9/s-L600.JPG)