File:Urban menace.jpg

Summary[edit]

DVD cover of Urban Menace, Copyright of Filmwerks Studios and Lions Gate Entertainment, 1999.

Rationale of fair use for Urban Menace[edit]

1. The image is of lower resolution and quality than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
2. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information.
3. The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the DVDs in any way.
4. The image's inclusion in the article is important to represent the movie in its entity.
5. The image is being used for informational purposes only.
6. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the DVD artwork on another DVD;
7. The material has previously been published in numerous sources, with higher resolution images available elsewhere (Snoopdogg.com, for example).
8. Used as a poster it can be seen in various locations as well as in publications.

Licensing[edit]

This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray, 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 or disc 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 the Copyright law of the United States. 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 non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag should only be used for video covers. Try using Template:Non-free use rationale video cover to state the rationale. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true