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The G-Man, as he addresses Gordon Freeman at the start of Half-Life 2. Image obtained by user:ZS, and resized from version with 1240x1024 screen resolution to one with only a 800x600 screen resolution.

[edit] Licensing: Fair use for G-Man and Half-Life 2

This is a screenshot of a non-free copyrighted video or computer 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:Non-free content.

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

Note: This tag should not be used for screenshots of free software; use the license tag corresponding to the software's license instead, optionally alongside {{Free screenshot}}.

The uploader of the image asserts that the images qualifies fair use for the following reasons:

Valve Corporation has not release character-specific images into public domain.
The image is necessary to describe the appearance of a key character and in-game scene in Half-Life 2; nothing else.
The screenshot is not intended to hinder the copyright owner's ability to sell the game.
This image is currently a screenshot of a lower resolution. The original version (see summary for details) is available as a reference.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:53, 20 May 2006	800×640 (98 KB)	ZS (Talk \| contribs)	(Resizing previous version to 800x640 resolution for better accomodation of fair use rationale.)
	15:32, 22 October 2005	1,280×1,024 (273 KB)	ZS (Talk \| contribs)	(== Summary == The G-Man, as he addresses Gordon Freeman at the start of ''Half-Life 2''. == Licensing - Fair use for ''Half-Life 2''== Demonstrates an element of the game and its graphics. The screenshot does not hinder )