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Summary edit
| Description | An animated gif (~20 seconds) of the Twitch Plays Pokémon stream; the game Pokémon Red is shown to the left where the character is being controlled by the commands entered by thousands of players and shown in the scrolling to the right. The animation is used to show the rate at which commands were coming in, while demonstrating the anarchy effect it had on the character in this case, spinning them around but with no movement whatsoever. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Game graphics are owned by Nintendo, the stream is published by Twitch |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Guardian article (note the act of recording the event to a GIF would not create a new copyright) |
| Date of publication | 2014-02-18 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Twitch Plays Pokémon |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | To demonstrate how the game/chat system work, the rate at which players were entering commands, and the net result it had on the game, including the addition of the "democracy" mode to the game. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
n.a. |
| Not replaceable with textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1) |
The effect of the anarchy and rate of entered commands is difficult to describe in text. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | The gif uses about 20 seconds of real-time footage - the Twitch stream had been running for 8 days at the point of this capture. The game footage used is only one small area of the original Pokémon Red game. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
n.a. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Twitch Plays Pokémon//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Twitch_plays_pokemon_animated.giftrue | |
Licensing edit
  | This image is a screenshot from 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 screenshots
constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. |
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 19:54, 24 February 2014 | | 460 × 262 (280 KB) | Masem (talk | contribs) | Much smaller GIF but that still captures essence of randomness. Gif from [http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/24/twitch-plays-pokemon] , but since direct recording of stream, no new copyright. |
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