File:Zippy the Pinhead (title panel).png

Zippy the Pinhead title; appears in every Sunday strip. [1]

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Fair use[edit]

Fair use in Zippy the Pinhead[edit]

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It appears that the entirety of this small illustration is used. It doesn't "compete with the copyright holder's usage" as long as it is used to show roughly who Zippy is, and no more than that.

I don't know for sure whether the resolution has been reduced; it's pretty small though.

The image isn't even slightly replaceable by a free content image, given that Bill Griffith, the artist of any authentic illustration of Zippy the Pinhead, doesn't release his illustrations either by GFDL or into the public domain. -- Hoary 15:16, 26 July 2007 (UTC)