File:Peanuts gang.png

Promotional artwork from the official Peanuts website at http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/index.html Art by Charles Schulz. This picture is also used on the cover of the Peanuts Anniversary Treasury.

PEANUTS © 2005, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

This image, Peanutsgang.gif, 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 featured in the Peanuts comic strip are subject to trademark law and thus protected;
2. The image has been released to the public through its placement on a freely accessible website by the copyright holders;
3. The image features a number of characters featured in the strip, all of which are widely discussed in a critical manner within the article.

This image, Peanutsgang.gif, is being linked here; although the picture is subject to copyright, it is appropriate for use on this page and is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. No free alternative can exist given the likeness of the characters featured in the Peanuts comic strip are subject to trademark law and thus protected;
2. The image has been released to the public through its placement on a freely accessible website by the copyright holders;
3. The image features a number of characters featured in the strip, all of which are widely discussed in a critical manner within the article.

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion. It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question; where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it; on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation; qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos. Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Peanuts_gang.png true

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04:27:59, 4 November 2006 . . Mike1 (Talk | Contribs) . . 386x289 (38,556 bytes) (from http://www.snoopy.com/comics/peanuts/meet_the_gang/index.html {{Promotional}})