File:Gygax83GreyhawkBoxCover.jpg

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Fair use for World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting[edit]

The use of this image in the article named / linked above is claimed as Fair use of copyrighted material because:

1. it is a low resolution copy of the cover art of a board game;
2. the article named above concerns the game in question;
3. the inclusion of the image in the named article makes a significant contribution to the article because it:
   1. identifies the subject of the article
   2. illustrates the game in question;
4. no free version of the image is available that would serve the equivalent purpose;
5. the inclusion of the image in the named article does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the game in any way;
6. the image cannot be used to replace the original market role of the product.

Licensing[edit]

This image is of a board game cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the publisher of the board game. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of board game covers to illustrate the board game in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gygax83GreyhawkBoxCover.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 board game covers. Do not use it for other purposes. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.