Image:StarCraft box art.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image
File history
File links

No higher resolution available.
StarCraft_box_art.jpg‎ (300 × 351 pixels, file size: 38 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

[edit] Summary

The most common Windows box art of StarCraft, depicting a Protoss warrior, flanked by a Zerg hydralisk and a Terran soldier. Two other variations, with the hydralisk and Terran predominant, were also made available.

[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 rationale

Non-free image data
Description	Photograph of the box art of StarCraft for the PC
Source	The image may be obtained from Blizzard Entertainment
Portion used	The entire box art is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.
Low resolution?	The box art is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company, without being unnecessarily high resolution. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.
Other information	Use of the cover art in the following articles complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

Non-free image rationale for StarCraft
Article	StarCraft
Purpose of use	The image is used to identify the video game StarCraft, a subject of public interest. The significance of the box art is to help the reader identify the game, assure the reader they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the game, and illustrate the nature of the game in a way that words alone could not convey.
Replaceable?	There are two variations of this box art available from Blizzard Entertainment. Any other substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Non-free image rationale for StarCraft (series)
Article	StarCraft (series)
Purpose of use	The image is used to identify the video game StarCraft, a subject of public interest. The significance of the box art is to help the reader identify the game within the context of the section, assure the reader they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the game.
Replaceable?	There are two variations of this box art available from Blizzard Entertainment. Any other substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:37, 10 April 2008	300×351 (38 KB)	S@bre (Talk \| contribs)	(==Summary== Image of the box art of the PC game ''StarCraft''. Copyright held by Blizzard Entertainment. Obtained from [http://wiki.fz.se/Bild:Starcraft_box.jpg wiki.fz], under [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html GNU Free Documentation License]. =)