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[edit] Fair use rationale

This image is used in the article Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge and consists of a screenshot of the eponymous game, illustrating its general graphical appearance. The image is used in an informative way in the respective article and used to document the game as a whole. Though its resolution has not been reduced with respect to the original (this would hardly be possible, considering how low it is in the first place), it represents a minuscule fraction of the game's artwork and would not interfere with the publisher's ability to turn profit—even if this game were anything other than a historical curiosity.

Furthermore, no version of the game is any longer available for sale from the publisher. This is not expected to change in the future. It is therefore certain that the publisher cannot derive any profit from the game, whether at the present or any time in the future, except incidentally by capitalizing on its celebrity.

The image is not replaceable by a free image, since it is meant to illustrate the artwork of a game that is, itself, non-free.

Under this rationale this image could be primarily used in the article describing the game in question, and secondarily in any other article regarding the publisher or the historical context of the game in question.

[edit] Licensing

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}}.