File:American Friends (cover).jpg

Summary edit

DVD cover of the film American Friends
Source:http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/american_friends/dvd.php?select=1

DVD cover to illustrate the article about the film American Friends. Although the picture is subject to U.S. copyright it is also covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• it is a low resolution copy of a DVD cover;
• it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the DVD in any way;
• no free alternative is available;
• its use is commensurate with usage throughout filmographies and DVD listings across the world wide web;
• its low resolution means copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the DVD artwork on a DVD or CD-ROM.

Licensing edit

This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray, etc. and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the video or the studio which produced the video in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of video covers to illustrate the videotape or disc in question on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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