File:GiveMeTheBrain-cover.jpg

Summary edit

This is a scan of a personal copy of the game that is the subject of the article Give Me the Brain. It is used for illustrative purposes and for commentary in the article. The artwork is designed by Brian Snōddy and is copyrighted by Cheapass Games. Display of the game cover is not a challenge to the copyright status of the illustration.

Licensing edit

This image is of a board game cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the publisher of the board game. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of board game covers to illustrate the board game in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GiveMeTheBrain-cover.jpg true

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 board game covers. Do not use it for other purposes. 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 rationale edit

This image has been checked by a third party against the articles in which it appears. It meets the following fair-use criteria:-

• No free alternative possible
  • If this is a promotional image from the company, then any "user-supplied" image whose sole purpose was clearly to represent the same copyrighted box/item art (and nothing else, and with no significant artistic input- i.e. a "mechanical" reproduction, whether by scanner or camera) would likely have the same restrictions.
• Is being used to demonstrate the product and/or its marketing
  • Serves to demonstrate the product being discussed rather than being used in a solely decorative manner.
• Does not deprive company of ability to make money in any way
• Is not being used in misleading or misrepresentative manner

Note that the artwork is designed by Brian Snōddy and is copyrighted by Cheapass Games.