File:OOTS1withbkgd.png

Summary[edit]

The Order of the Stick #1, illustration ©2003 Rich Burlew.

Fair use rationale[edit]

It is believed that the use of this image, OOTS1withbkgd.gif, qualfies as fair use in the article The Order of the Stick because:

• No substitute is available under a free license, nor could one be created that would provide the same information.
• The use of this image does not impair the copyright holder's ability to sell the original work in any way.
• This image contributes significantly to the article, as it serves to identify the OOTS webcomic, show the beginning of the The Order of the Stick comic, and provide an illustration for size and shape of early strips.
• The image is of sufficiently low resolution that it could not be used to create illegal copies of the original.

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:OOTS1withbkgd.png 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. 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. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

History of Image:OOTS1withbkgd.gif[edit]

• 2008-04-12T12:44:44Z Ig8887 (Talk | contribs) (865 bytes) (== Summary == [[The Order of the Stick]] #1, illustration ©2003 [[Rich Burlew]]. ==Fair use rationale== It is believed that the use of this image, OOTS1withbkgd.gif, qualfies as [[fair use]] in the article ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'' because: * No s)
• 2008-04-12T12:44:43Z Ig8887 (Talk | contribs) (709x902) (100653 bytes)