File:CM5 boxart.jpg

Licensing edit

This image is cover art for a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art to visually identify the game in question on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CM5_boxart.jpg true

Fair use image data edit

Fair use rationale edit

Fair use rationale edit

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

1. It is a low resolution copy of a game cover.
2. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
3. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original game.
4. It illustrates educational articles about the game from which the cover illustration was taken.
5. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Strangerer (Talk) 10:41, 6 June 2007 (UTC)