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The Pit and the Pendulum, 2004 DVD release cover, deemed fair use

This image is of a DVD cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the DVD or the studio which produced the DVD in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of DVD covers

• to illustrate the DVD 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. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

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.

[edit] Fair use

This image, Movie DVD cover pit and the pendulum.jpg, is being linked here; although the picture is subject to copyright I (Hal Raglan) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• According to the Wikipedia:Fair use tag for DVD covers, "it is believed that the use of low-resolution images of DVD covers, to illustrate the movie in question, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law." The DVD cover is a scanned .jpg file taken directly from the MGM DVD cover of The Pit and the Pendulum. The image has been added to the article to assist in critical commentary/discussion of the film in question. Also:

1. It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
3. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.-Hal Raglan 05:37, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

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• The Pit and the Pendulum (1961 film)