Image: Peanuts gang

Description: Peanuts gang
Usage Terms: Fair use - low resolution version used for subject article illustration. PEANUTS © 2005, United Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Fair use rationale for Peanuts

This image, Peanutsgang.gif, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright 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.