Image:Jim083.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links

Size of this preview: 400 × 599 pixels
Full resolution‎ (510 × 764 pixels, file size: 137 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Cover to Journey into Mystery #83, August, 1962. Art by Jack Kirby. © Marvel Comics.

[edit] Licensing

[edit] Fair use in Journey into Mystery

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the comic book from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic, the comic book series Journey into Mystery.
3. The image is from the cover of issue #83, the most historically significant issue of the series, in that it introduced the superhero character Thor.
4. 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.
5. It is a low resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The comic book is copyrighted, so the image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

[edit] Fair use in Thor (Marvel Comics)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the character depicted in the comic book from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. The image is the cover from the historically significant issue #83, which introduced the character.
4. 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.
5. It is a low resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The character is copyrighted, so the image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

• Search for duplicate files
• Edit this file using an external application

  See the setup instructions for more information.

File links