File:Unearthly Child 2.jpg

Summary edit

Screenshot from "An Unearthly Child", the very first episode of the science fiction television series Doctor Who.

Fair use rationale for An Unearthly Child edit

This image, Anunearthlychild.jpg, is a screen shot from a Doctor Who episode, and copyrighted by the BBC, I futurehawk|talk 19:00, 27 September 2007 (UTC)) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use law because:

1. The image is a low-resolution (741 × 556) screen shot from a 25-minute episode of Doctor Who, and of inferior quality to standard broadcast or DVD releases;
2. The image is being used for informational purposes, visually depicting the main characters of the show's first season, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan, together for the first time;
3. No more free alternative exists or can exist;
4. The use of the image in this article will have no effect on the BBC’s commercial use of the image in question.

Licensing edit

This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for identification of and critical commentary on the television program 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, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unearthly_Child_2.jpg true