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1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Fair use in PCU (film)
4 Source

[edit] Summary

PCU movie VHS cover from 1994 release.

[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 PCU (film)

Although this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the United States fair use laws because:

It's a low resolution copy of a VHS Cover.
It doesn't limit or harm the copyright owner's rights to sell the film in any way; on the contrary it may encourage sales.
Because of the low-res of the image, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the image.
The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
Its solitary use in the article is to identify the subject of the article.
The image is significant because it was, and is, used to promoted the film.

[edit] Source

Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the VHS Cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the film company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.