File:Civilization box cover.jpg

Copyrighted box art for Civilization, scanned by User:Stan Shebs.

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:Civilization_box_cover.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.

This copyrighted image is used in the English-language Wikipedia article "Civilization (1980 board game)." The manner of said use constitutes a "fair use" under United States copyright law. Specifically:

1. The English-language Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization.
2. The article for which this use occurs is purely educational in nature and, thus, is non-commercial.
3. The sole purpose of this use of the copyrighted image is to illustrate the board game in question.
4. Said image is the primary means of visual identification of the main topic of the article.
5. The image is used only once in the article, and is used in a section or "information box" that is neutral in tone.
6. The cover artwork for the game box is not the actual "content" specifically being sold by the owner of the image.
7. The market for the original board game product will not be diminished by this use of the image. In fact, this use is likely to encourage the increased legitimate sales of said game.
8. Because the image is provided at a low resolution inappropriate for re-printing the game box, its usage on Wikipedia does not pose a problem of aiding the illegal production of counterfeit goods, or make it so that the copyright holder could not in the future successfully re-sell the image as a print or poster on its own.
9. Since it is copyrighted game box artwork, the image is not replaceable with a "free content" image.
10. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is produced, sponsored, or authorized by the owner of the image.

• Copyright in artwork likely held by Hasbro, its subsidiaries or the individual graphic artists responsible.