File:First Peanuts comic.png

First Comic of Peanuts. October 2, 1950 Sourced from The Complete Peanuts: 1950 to 1952 ISBN 1-56097-589-X May 2004 Fantagraphics PEANUTS © 2005, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

This image, First peanuts comic.PNG, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Hiding Talk) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because

1. No free alternative can exist given the likeness of the characters depicted are copyrighted and also subject to trademark and thus protected;
2. It is a low resolution copy of a comic strip;
3. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the comic strip in any way;
4. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic strip in another book;
5. The image is significant; it was created by a notable comic strip artist, Charles Schulz. It is the first published Peanuts strip.
6. The article discusses the strip and the art style used in a critical manner and notes the publication of this particular strip, making this image useful in identifying the strip and the early artistic style contained.

This image, First peanuts comic.PNG, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Mavarin Talk) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. No free alternative can exist given the likeness of the characters depicted are copyrighted and also subject to trademark and thus protected;
2. It is a low resolution copy of a comic strip;
3. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the comic strip in any way;
4. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the comic strip in another book;
5. The image is significant; it was created by a notable comic strip artist, Charles Schulz. It is the first published Peanuts strip, and the first appearance of the article's world-famous titular character.
6. The article discusses the strip and its content in a critical manner and notes the publication of this particular strip, making this image useful in identifying the strip and the character as he first appeared.

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:First_Peanuts_comic.png true

The PNG crusade bot automatically converted this image to the more efficient PNG format. The image was originally uploaded as "First peanuts comic.PNG".

14:41:36, 7 July 2006 . . Timothy Chavis (Talk | Contribs) . . 600x117 (20,123 bytes) (First Comic of Peanuts. October 2, 1950 )