File:BaseballStarsNESCover.jpg

Summary edit

This is an image of the original box cover for the NES game "Baseball Stars"

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:BaseballStarsNESCover.jpg true

Fair use in Baseball Stars article edit

Although this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the United States fair use laws because:

• It's a low resolution copy of the video game's original box cover.
• Use of the image doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the game in any way, but in fact may encourage sales.
• Because of its low resolution copies of it could not be used to make any illegal copies of the image.
• The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the game's infobox within the article.
• Its sole use here is to identify the subject of the article.
• The image is significant because it was used to promoted the game.

Image Source edit

• The image was derived from digital capture (photo/scan) of the video game's original box. The creator of this digital version is irrelevant as copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party. Copyright is held by the game's developer. Claimed as fair use regardless.