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Fair use rationale

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Alex Raymond
Description

Panel from the July 28, 1956 instalment of Rip Kirby. Art by Alex Raymond

Source

KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, DIGITALLY PHOTOGRAPHED image

Article

Alex Raymond

Portion used

Single panel as published.

Low resolution?

250px size unsuitable to use for high end reproduction.

Purpose of use

Illustration of the artist's work.

Replaceable?

No free use image available. As these are fictional, copyrighted characters, a freely-licensed alternative could not reasonably be obtained.

Other information

Though this DIGITALLY PHOTOGRAPHED image is subject to copyright BY KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, its use here is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. It representatively illustrates an educational article about a once popular, once widely-appreciated comic strip artist of the past; its inclusion in the article adds significantly to understanding it because it is a historical sample of the art and story that are the subject of the article, and is covered in the critical commentary. Therefore the image substantially improves the educational value of the article.
  2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic, which concerns visual art.
  3. It is of much lower resolution than the original. Any potential copies made from it would be of very inferior quality unsuitable for any commercial purpose. It is not used here for profit, and its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder, and such use does not decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.
  4. It is not in any way replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image pertinent to the article subject, because the whole body of work under discussion is copyrighted.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alex Raymond//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ripkirby.pngtrue

Licensing

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File history

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current20:02, 9 September 2009Thumbnail for version as of 20:02, 9 September 2009250 × 218 (110 KB)J Greb (talk | contribs)Resized and cleaned up.

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