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Fair use rationale in Scoop (1987 film) edit

It is contended that the use of this DVD or VHS cover in Scoop (1987 film) qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:

1. No free or public domain images have been located or are known to exist for this film.
2. This image illustrates the cover of the film released in the article specified above.
3. This image can be used to identify the film that is the subject of this article. This is specific to the released film itself and should not be used to identify actors or any individual part of the film itself.
4. This images identification capabilities are greater than that could be provided via prose alone including description of the film's plot line and/or an accompanying cast list.
5. The image is being used in an informative/educational way and does not detract from sales of the film in any way.
6. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the film in any way.
7. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.

Summary edit

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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.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag should only be used for video covers. Try using Template:Non-free use rationale video cover to state the rationale. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true