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1 Rationale of fair use for Sonic Adventure 2
2 Summary
3 Licensing
4 Fair use image data
5 Fair use rationale

[edit] Rationale of fair use for Sonic Adventure 2

No free or public domain images have been located for this video game.
The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the game in any way.
The image does not impede the publishers ability to sell the game.
For an article about a video game, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
The cover is being used for informational purposes only, in an educational matter that does not harm anyone, but allows identification with the main subject.
The image fulfills the criteria laid out at Template:Non-free game cover.

[edit] Summary

Property of Sega and the Sonic Team.

[edit] Licensing

This image is cover art for a video or computer game, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art

to illustrate the packaging of the game in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might 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 well as the source of the work and copyright information.

Usage:

This template accepts the platform(s) as parameter to better categorize the tagged image.

{{Non-free game cover|Macintosh|Linux|Windows}}

{{Non-free game cover|Macintosh}}

or just

{{Non-free game cover}}

if the platform is unknown.

[edit] Fair use image data

Non-free image data
Description	Cover of GameCube.
Source	Scanned bBox art
Portion used	Game cover only.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by Sega.

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free image rationale for GameCube
Article	GameCube
Purpose of use	Cover is used for illustration.
Replaceable?	Image is protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.