File:Mlb2k8 ss.jpg

Summary[edit]

Fair use in Major League Baseball 2K8[edit]

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

1. It illustrates educational articles about the game from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The use of the cover 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 game.
3. It is a low resolution image.
4. The image is only a big portion of the commercial product.
5. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

JAF1970 (talk) 06:01, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

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:Mlb2k8_ss.jpg true

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