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1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Licensing
4 Fair use rationale

[edit] Summary

DVD Cover; listed as fair use

[edit] Licensing

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

to illustrate the videotape 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, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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

[edit] Licensing

to illustrate the videotape in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

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

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Black Samurai
Description	Cover of Black Samurai .
Source	Copied from graphic artist website, and intellectual property owned by graphic artist.
Article	Black Samurai
Portion used	DVD cover only.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Purpose of use	Cover is used for purposes of illustration in the Black Samurai article, a subject of public interest.
Replaceable?	Image is protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.