This file was excerpted by BostonBay from the June 19, 1938 strip. This excerpt is being used in the Singing Sword article and the Prince Valiant article to illustrate several characteristics of the strip. including Hal Foster's compositional techniques and level of detail. It is also representative of the types of situations wherein Prince Valiant finds himself (e.g. outnumbered, fighting, death looming, against Viking Raiders).
This is fair use under US Copyright law because:
It is representative of the work as a whole.
It is only a small part of the Prince Valiant body of work (half of one of 3000 strips).
It should not affect the commercial value of Prince Valiant (at least in a negative way).
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,
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
Fair use
true
This image represents a two-dimensional work of art, such as a drawing, painting, print, or similar creation. The copyright for this image is likely owned by either the artist who created it, the individual who commissioned the work, or their legal heirs. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of artworks:
for purposes of critical commentary on:
the specific work in question,
the artistic genre or technique employed in the artwork, or
the artistic school or tradition to which the artist is associated,
as applied within the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers located in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,
Any other use of this image, whether on Wikipedia or elsewhere, could potentially constitute a copyright infringement. For further information, please refer to Wikipedia's guidelines on non-free content. Fair use//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Prince_Valiant_excerpt_1.jpg
true
To the uploader:
Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
Fair use
true
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
