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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Ziggy
Description
Source	Copied from http://www.toonopedia.com/ziggy.htm website, and intellectual property owned by Tom Wilson II.
Article	Ziggy
Portion used	Whole
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To identify Ziggy
Replaceable?	Image is protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

[edit] Licensing

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.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Ziggy (comic)

This image, Ziggy-cartoon.jpg, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Thief12 (talk) 02:27, 13 February 2008 (UTC)) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

No free alternative can exist given the likeness of the character Ziggy is a trademark and thus protected;
It is a low resolution copy of a comic book cover;
The image was released to the media to promote the issue in question;
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 book cover art on another comic book;
The image is significant; it was created by a notable comic book artist, Tom Wilson; and it identifies the character depicted, Ziggy.