File:CaliforniaKidPoster.jpg

Summary edit

Description: Low-resolution image of advertisement for The California Kid (1974), an ABC Movie of the Week, featuring star Martin Sheen
Copyright holder: American Broadcasting Company
Source: Scan from private collection

Fair use for B movies (The exploitation boom) edit

This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (DCGeist) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. it is a low-resolution copy of a TV movie advertisement;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell or promote the TV movie in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
4. the image contributes significantly to readers' understanding of the article's subject because it illustrates (a) a significant and representative TV B movie from the classic period of the form and (b) the marketing of such TV movies during that historical period as discussed in the accompanying text

Licensing edit

This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration 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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