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This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
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 usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

To the uploader: This tag should only be used for images of a person, product, or event that is known to have come from a press kit or similar source, for the purpose of reuse by the media. Please add a detailed fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the image and copyright information. Additionally, if the copyright holder has granted permission, please provide further details as to the terms.

In addition to the fair-use assertion shown on this page, the copyright holder has granted permission for this image to be used in Wikipedia. This permission does not extend to third parties.
This tag must be used in conjunction with another fair-use image tag. If no other tag is present on this page, and this image was uploaded after May 19, 2005, please speedily delete this image or tag it with {{db-i3}}.

[edit] Fair use for Scott Pilgrim

The use of the image linked here (ScottPilgrim_cast.jpg) in the Wikipedia article Scott Pilgrim is claimed to be under fair use as:

The image is an ad, meant to promote the respective series.
The image is only used for nonprofit educational purposes, for identification of the cast of the series.
The image is at a resolution far inferior to that of the original.
It is believed that the use does not lessen the commercial value of the copyrighted work.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:45, 27 November 2005	540×820 (104 KB)	Fritz Saalfeld (Talk \| contribs)	(Promotional ad for ''Scott Pilgrim''. Source: [http://www.myspace.com/scottpilgrim Scott Pilgrim] at MySpace)