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[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] Fair use in Live in East Berlin

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It illustrates educational articles about the VHS from which the cover illustration was taken, namely the cover for the VHS Live in East Berlin by the artist Kreator.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies of the image could not be used to make illegal copies of the VHS artwork on another VHS.
It is a low resolution image.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.