File:Afrika Korps game.jpg

Summary edit

The game materials and components for the board game Afrika Korps, released in 1964 by Avalon Hill Games. Retrieved from http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/8694

Licensing edit

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Fair use rationale for Afrika Korps (game) edit

This image has been checked by a third party against the articles in which it appears. It meets the following fair-use criteria:-

• No free alternative possible
  • If this is a promotional image from the company, then any "user-supplied" image whose sole purpose was clearly to represent the same copyrighted box/item art (and nothing else, and with no significant artistic input- i.e. a "mechanical" reproduction, whether by scanner or camera) would likely have the same restrictions.
• Is being used to demonstrate the product and/or its marketing
  • Serves to demonstrate the product being discussed rather than being used in a solely decorative manner.
• Does not deprive company of ability to make money in any way
• Is not being used in misleading or misrepresentative manner
• Copyright in artwork likely to be owned by Hasbro, or the individual designers/artists responsible.