User:MatthewVanitas/Fair use in layman's terms

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Nice work! I suggest you add an image of the poster to the Infobox. That said, uploading a Non-Free image (poster, logo, etc) is a little tricky the first couple times you do it, though after a dozen times you can do it in your sleep. There's a longer explanation of how to do it here at Wikipedia:Non-free content, but I can summarize:

  • Get an image of the poster/cover from anywhere on the internet, because you'll be claiming Fair Use so it's a legit copyright allowance. But make sure you keep the specific link you got the image from
  • Edit the image so that it is no larger than it will appear on-screen (so like 300px tops) and not high-res. The idea is that you can't just upload a huge high-res image that someone could steal and use for their own purposes, you're trying to deliberately make a semi-crappy pic that's juuuuuuust good enough to illustrate the article, but no better.
  • On the left-hand margin of your screen right now, there's a column of links below the Wikipedia globe. Under Tools is "Upload File"
  • Once you're in the tool you can upload the file, and carefully check off the boxes to say "Non-Free image", "cover art or poster", "using it as primary visual in the subject article", etc. etc.
  • Once you've filled out that form, it'll upload and you can add it to your infobox (you don't need all the image coding, just paste the name of the jpg or whatever itself in the "image" entry in the infobox).
  • Note you can only use a Fair Use image on the specific article for the exact subject it's of.