kurumada-Anime.jpg

Summary

Fair use rationale for use in the article Masami Kurumada

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the manga author Masami Kurumada.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the show.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell, produce, or advertise the show in any way.

Licensing

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 Wiki, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wiki 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 Wiki: Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kurumada-anime.jpg true

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 Wiki: Use rationale examples. This template is only for use on images which are screenshots from television. For screenshots of title cards of television programs or station IDs, use {{Non-free title-card}} instead. Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating 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.