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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Portal (video game)
Description	Picture of the Weighted Companion Cube fuzzy dice to demonstrate what the cube looks like and the fact material has been merchandised from the game
Source	Weighted Companion Cube is copyright Valve; image is from Valve's Steam store: http://storefront.steampowered.com/Steam/Marketing/message/1301/
Article	Portal (video game)
Portion used	Cropped to only show dice
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	Identification of the Weighted Companion Cube and the existence of merchandise of the Cube
Replaceable?	No free replacement is likely (any recreation would fall under a derivative work of a copyrighted character)

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current	20:11, 26 February 2008	197×219 (7 KB)	Masem (Talk \| contribs)	({{Non-free use rationale \|Article=Portal (video game) \|Description=Picture of the Weighted Companion Cube fuzzy dice to demonstrate what the cube looks like and the fact material has been merchandised from the game \|Source=Weighted Companion Cube is copyr)