File:Simpsons angry mob.png

Summary edit

A screenshot from a promotional trailer for The Simpsons Movie. It displays the scene in which an angry mob of townspeople come after Homer. Trailer found here at the Official Apple The Simpsons Movie trailer website. The image, and any other from The Simpsons Movie are copyrighted by 20th Century Fox.

Licensing edit

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for critical commentary and discussion of the film and its contents 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 is only for images which are screenshots from films. 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

Fair use for The Simpsons Movie edit

This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. No free equivalent exists that would visually show a scene from the film, which is copyrighted in nature, of how many characters were able to be drawn into just one scene, in this case over 320.
2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy and to limit its impact on the film's marketability.
4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section title.
8. The image is significant in illustrating the film's animation style and display a scene with a vast amount of characters, detailed in the Animation and Casting sections of the article.
9. The image is used in the article namespace.
10. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.