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I'm pretty sure excerpts are considered fair use.

• _delirium 16y ago
  True, but it's also possible that the comic's reference, as a small part of the total work, to a fan image on the internet is also fair use. I guess it might turn on the extent to which the original image was passed around (which I don't know at all)--- you have a stronger fair-use argument referencing things that are part of popular culture, as opposed to, say, randomly taking something out of a high-school yearbook.
  • pbhjpbhj 16y ago
    They used the whole work, a photo. He's not only using an excerpt of substantially reduced quality but also reporting and/or critiquing the work. Lastly the work he's critiquing is in part a derivative of his own work and so the presentation of at least that derivative [half-page] image could not be a copyright infringement IMO unless he'd licensed away the right to duplicate it (this would not be true if it was transformative).