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[edit] Rationale of fair use for this movie poster image

Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Yakuza
Description

UK Quad original release poster
Source

Online poster merchant, who does not own the copyright for the poster
Article

The Yakuza
Portion used

Entire image, cropped to remove whitespace, and color corrected for legibility.
Low resolution?

Yes
Purpose of use

Image is used to illustrate the original release marketing campaign for the film, which is significantly different from the later, DVD release.
Replaceable?

As this poster is a copyrighted promotional item from the film's distributor, no free image can be found.
Other information The aspect ratio of this poster makes it more advantageous for use in the article's infobox. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.

[edit] Licensing

Copyrighted This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters
  • to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration
  • 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 well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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current19:07, 23 December 2006600×473 (29 KB)Davidbspalding (Talk | contribs) (==Rationale of fair use for this movie poster image== # This image is used to represent the film and illustrate how it was promoted during its original theatrical release. # It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of )

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Vertical resolution 72 dpi
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File change date and time 2006-11-08T15:11:12-05:00
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