File:NFS Underground (PC) screenshot.jpg

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Screenshot of Need for Speed: Underground (PC), from a circuit race.

Licensing: Fair use for Need for Speed series and Need for Speed: Underground edit

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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 game screenshots. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

The author asserts the image qualifies for fair use for the following reasons:

1. EA Games and its affiliates have not released screenshots into public domain.
2. The image is needed to critically illustrate a computer or video game and improve the quality of the articles in question, per Wikipedia:Article development.
3. The image is not intended to hinder the copyright holders' ability to market and sell its games.
4. This image is only to be used on the articles related to the Need for Speed series.