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one panel of an Arlo and Janis daily strip.

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It representatively illustrates a particular point in an educational article about the popular, widely-appreciated comic strip series; its inclusion in the article adds significantly to understanding it because it is a historical sample of art and story attributes which are specifically covered in the critical commentary, namely the first appearance of the cat in the strip.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification, and/or confirmation of the reader’s memory of the article topic.
3. It is a partial copy and of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality unsuitable for any commercial purpose).
4. It is not in any way replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image pertinent to the article subject, because the whole body of work under discussion is copyrighted.
5. This image was published on 11/3/1993, and is copyright 2003 by Newspaper Enterprise Association.

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