Summary
[edit]Volume 2 cover of manga series Sugar Princess by Hisaya Nakajo.
Fair Use for Sugar Princess
[edit]Though the picture is subject to copyright I (DoubleLn2) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- it is the cover page of a manga
- it does not limit the copyright owners rights to sell the manga series in any way.
- it provides visual identification of the character
- it provides visual identification of the art style of this series
- there is no free alternative depicting these characters.
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.
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.
- For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
- This template is only for use with images of comics.
- Template:Comic cover rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.