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Screenshot of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (PC), running in the Jefferson district of Los Santos, San Andreas. Image obatined by User:ZS (previously User:25), and resized from version with 1240x1024 screen resolution to one with only a 800x600 screen resolution.

[edit] Licensing: Fair use for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

This is a screenshot of a copyrighted computer game or video game, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the company or person that developed the game. It is believed that the use of a limited number of web-resolution screenshots

for identification and critical commentary on
- the computer or video game in question or
- the copyrighted character(s) or item(s) depicted on the screenshot in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law, as such display does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to sell the copyrighted material, is not being used to generate profit in this context, and presents ideas that cannot be exhibited otherwise. See Wikipedia:Fair use and fair use rationale.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

The author asserts that the image qualifies fair use for the following reasons:

Rockstar North and Rockstar Games have not release game screenshots into public domain.
The image is necessary to describe the appearance the game's gameplay and graphics; nothing else.
The screenshot is not intended to hinder the copyright owner's ability to sell the game.
This image is a screenshot and thus immediately falls in fair use.

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(del) (cur) 20:05, 20 May 2006 . . ZS (Talk | contribs) . . 800×640 (189,692 bytes) (Resizing previous version to 800x640 resolution for better accomodation of fair use rationale.)
(del) (rev) 15:06, 4 October 2005 . . 25 (Talk | contribs) . . 1280×1024 (636,794 bytes) (== Summary == Screenshot of the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas'' (PC), running in a Jefferson street at Los Santos, San Andreas. == Licensing - Fair use for ''Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas''== Demonstrates the game and its graphics.)