File:Billthecat.jpg

Summary edit

picture of Bill the Cat, property of Berkeley Breathed

Fair use rationale edit

It is believed that this image, Billthecat.jpg, is subject to fair use in the article Bill the Cat because:

• The image is used for identification and critical commentary of the article subject
• The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.
• The image is used to provide a sample of the comic book artist's work
• The image is a web-resolution image, of lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
• It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
• It depicts a fictional subject, a character, that is copyrighted. It would be impossible to create a replacement image which would not be subject to the original author's copyright.
• The image substantially improves the article it is in.
• It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
• Its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder.
• Its use on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.

Licensing edit

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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Billthecat.jpg true