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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Image Comics
Description	Cover for Witchblade #80 (November 2004) Art by Michael Choi.
Source	http://www.atomicavenue.com/atomic/IssueDetail.aspx?ID=137060 (similar file if not the one originally uploaded.)
Article	Image Comics
Portion used	Full front cover as published.
Low resolution?	Size unsuitable to use for high reproduction.
Purpose of use	For identification purposes in conjunction with discussion of the topic of the article. It illustrates an educational article about the comic book from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	No free use image available.

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.

Witchblade Issue #80

[edit] Fair use for Bad girl art

This image, picture-fair-use.jpg, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Smerdis of Tlön) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

it is a low resolution copy of a comic book cover;
it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the comic book in any way;
copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic
the subject of the article in which it is used is specifically about this sort of character and this sort of art;
the subject of the article is a trend in commercially published comic books starting in the 1980s, and as such no public domain images are possible that accurately depict the subject matter.