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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Everett M. "Busy" Arnold
Description	The Comics Magazine #1 (May 1936), The Comics Magazine Co. (defunct), cover art by Vin Sullivan
Source	http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=109&zoom=4
Article	Everett M. "Busy" Arnold
Portion used	Full cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate an example of one of the article subject's (a publisher) most important contributions: one of the earliest prototypes of what would become the American comic book.
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 editor The image is used as the only means of visual identification of the article topic. The image is from the historically significant, 72-year-old (as of 2008) first issue. 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 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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The Comics Magazine #1 (May 1936), The Comics Magazine Co. (defunct), cover art by Vin Sullivan

Source: http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=109&zoom=4

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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;
- 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.

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current	04:55, 29 December 2005	400×576 (77 KB)	Tenebrae (Talk \| contribs)	(''The Comics Magazine'' Vol. 1, #1 (May 1936), The Comics Magazine Co. (defunct), cover art by Vin Sullivan Source: http://comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=109&zoom=4)