File:Back to the Future.jpg

Description: Poster of Universal Pictures. film Back To The Future (1985)
Source: © Universal Studios. All rights Reserved.

This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration 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 tag should only be used for posters. Try using Template:Non-free use rationale poster to state 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. Fair use true

1. This image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes the film in question for which it promotes
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the film in any way;
3. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the film.
4. No free or public domain images have been located for this film.

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

1. it is a scaled-down, low resolution image of a movie poster;
2. the article named above concerns the film in question;
3. the inclusion of the image in the named article makes a significant contribution to the article because it:
   1. identifies the film in question;
   2. illustrates a section of the article;
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 market the film, or to market the movie poster itself, in any way;
6. the image cannot be used to replace the original market role of the film in question or of the movie poster itself.

1. For an article covering the films released in the USA in 1985, one single screenshot identifying the highest grossing film of that year in the absence of any other images significantly contribrutes to the article and illustrates the role and significance of that film in cinemtatic history.
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this film or indeed any films of that year.
3. The image is of lower resolution than the original poster (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
4. The poster is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original film or affect the copywright holder in any way. The poster's use in that film history article is entirely encyclopedic in nature and is believed to enhance a understanding of film in that year in history.
5. The poster is used on various websites, and its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.