File:Crash Magazine Cover Issue 1.jpg

Summary edit

• Initial cover of Crash magazine.

Fair Use edit

• Image is being used to illustrate a reference in the article for CRASH (magazine).
• Image signified a particularly important stage in the publishing of CRASH (magazine).
• Image is of lower quality, and would not limit the publisher/photographer from selling the work.
• Image is of a magazine issue that is not currently on sale.

Licensing edit

This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use true

Fair use in CRASH (magazine) edit

Although this image is subject to copyright, I, Oscarthecat (talk · contribs), feel that its use in CRASH (magazine) is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is being used for informational purposes only;
2. It is a low-resolution image that does not match the original copyrighted work in quality;
3. It does not infringe upon the original copyright holder's ability to profit from the media;
4. No free or public domain equivalents have been located or could be created without infringing on copyright; and
5. It contributes to the article in which it is used by providing information directly relevant to the portions of the article's text.