File:HCjr VHS 1990.jpg

Summary edit

VHS cover of Singin' & Swingin' by Harry Connick, Jr. (1990)

Fair use in Singin' & Swingin' edit

Though this copyrighted image's use is permissible according to U.S. fair use laws for the following reasons:

1. This is a low resolution version of the VHS cover.
2. The inclusion of this image does not damage the image's owner's right to sell the VHS.
3. This cannot feasibly be used to create illegal copies of the VHS.
4. Its use here is purely encyclopedic.
5. This is the VHS cover of the movie in question.

Licensing edit

This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray, etc. and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the video or the studio which produced the video in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of video covers to illustrate the videotape or disc in question 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.

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 video covers. Try using Template:Non-free use rationale video cover to state the rationale. 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 true