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A frame from Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" tract.

[edit] Source

The web of Chick Publications, specificially http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp accessed in July 2006.

[edit] Fair use rationales

We assert that this is fair use in the Dungeons & Dragons controversies article, which uses the image as a prominent example of criticism of Dungeons & Dragons, since it is a small low quality piece of a larger work and the work is discussed at that page. This is transformative use very different from the use the copyright holder makes of the image. Chick's cartoons are iconic and authentic in a way that a free alternative would be unlikely to be.

The use at Chick tract also qualifies as fair use. That page discusses this particular tract at some length in an encyclopedic way, displaying a picture from it adds significantly to the information value of the section in question without harming the copyright holder's ability to make use of his work.

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

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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	13:10, 8 July 2006	462×239 (81 KB)	Haukurth (Talk \| contribs)	(A frame from Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeons" tract. Taken from here: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp We assert that this is fair use in the Dungeons & Dragons article since it's a small low quality piece of a larger work and t)