File:Dark Crusade in-game screenshot.jpg

Summary[edit]

This screenshot portrays the Necrons fighting the Tau in the Dark Crusade game.

Fair-use rationales[edit]

Fair-use in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War: Dark Crusade[edit]

This image is subject to copyright, however, its use constitute fair-use under United States laws for the following reasons:

1. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the game;
2. Use of this image does not limit or prevent the license holders' ability to sell the game;
3. No substitute is available under a free license, nor could one be created that would provide the same information;
4. The image is a clear depiction of a battle going on during gameplay, and inclusion in the article helps to illustrate several key concepts. To describe these using words only would significantly lengthen the article.
5. The image, or an image portraying something similar, may be recreated and distributed on the internet very easily, so therefore its use on Wikipedia does not have a significant impact on license holders.

Licensing[edit]

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots to visually identify the game in question on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dark_Crusade_in-game_screenshot.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 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.