File:The Bear 1984.JPG

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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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Fair use rationale for The Bear (1984 film) article edit

This copyrighted image is used in the English-language Wikipedia article "The Bear (1984 film)." The manner of said use constitutes a "fair use" under United States copyright law. Specifically:

1. The English-language Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization.
2. The article for which this use occurs is purely educational in nature and, thus, is non-commercial.
3. The sole purpose of this use of the copyrighted image is to illustrate the movie in question.
4. Said image is the primary means of visual identification of the main topic of the article.
5. The image is used only once in the article, and is used in a section or "information box" that is neutral in tone.
6. The market for the original movie product will not be diminished by this use of the image. In fact, this use is most likely to encourage the increased legitimate sales of said DVD's.
7. Because the image is provided at a low resolution, its usage on Wikipedia does not pose a problem of aiding media piracy (the re-printing of covers to accompany pirated discs), or make it so that the copyright holder could not, currently or in the future, successfully sell a substantially similar image as a print or poster.
8. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the image.