File:Gradius gaiden-cover.jpg

Summary edit

Front cover of the Japanese PlayStation video game, Gradius Gaiden.

(C) Konami

Source: [1], used in context [2]

Rationale for fair use in Gradius Gaiden edit

1. No free or public domain images have been located for this video game.
2. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, and could not be used as artwork on illegal copies of this video game.
3. The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the album in any way.
4. This is the artwork, intended by Konami for wide distribution. As such, it has future historical significance, and is a more appropriate choice than any other image available.
5. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.
6. The cover is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original video game in any way.

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:Gradius_gaiden-cover.jpg true

The use of this file in the article(s) Gradius Gaiden was reviewed by Quadell on 22:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC) and deemed likely to meet Wikipedia's policy on non-freely licensed content, because it is thought to meet all criteria as described in Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. This file's use on other pages or in different contexts may require additional review at Wikipedia:Files for discussion.