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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Ogden Whitney
Description	Cover, Hit Comics #18, Quality Comics (defunct co.), August 1964, art by Ogden Whitney (both pencils and inks per Grand Comics Database)
Source	http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?id=1851&zoom=4
Article	Ogden Whitney
Portion used	Full cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the work of the visual artist who is the article's subject
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 visual artist. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. The image is from a historically significant, nearly 50-year old (44 years as of 2008) issue from the period known as the Silver Age of Comic Books. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the rights of ability of the copyright holder (if any) 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 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	17:55, 17 April 2008	400×574 (78 KB)	Tenebrae (Talk \| contribs)	({{Non-free media rationale \|Description= Cover, ''Hit Comics'' #18, Quality Comics (defunct co.), August 1964, art by Ogden Whitney (both pencils and inks per Grand Comics Database) \|Article = Ogden Whitney \|Source= http://www.comics.org/coverview.lasso?)