User:Megapixie/CopyrightFlowChart/FairUseCriticalComment
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The image might meet Wikipedia’s fair use policy. Please review the policy and make a judgment. We should be using as few fair use images as possible. The image itself should be
- as small as possible (usually not wider than 300 pixels),
- discussed directly in the article (for a good example, see The Persistence of Memory),
- critically important to the reader’s understanding of the article,
- not replaceable by a free image that could be created or found and
- not a screenshot used just to show what a person looks like (such as a screen capture from Terminator 2 to illustrate Arnold Schwarzenegger).
The image page must include a fair use rationale. You can use the following template, filling in all of the fields:
{{Fair use rationale
|Description= Title and brief description of the image.
|Source= Exact work from which this image is taken, e. g. the author, title,
year of publication and edition of a book, the URL of a website or
the name and year of release of a film.
|Portion= How much of the work are we using, such as one frame from a film
or an entire photograph at reduced resolution.
|Purpose= The role this image plays in the article where it is used.
|ResolutionReduced= Was the resolution reduced? E. g. yes, reduced from
720×480 DVD screenshot to 180×120.
|Replaceability= Reason why this image cannot ever be replaced by a free image.
|other_information= Optional, additional remarks, e. g.:
Permission was granted to Wikipedia for using this image.
}}
[edit] Most common tags
For a complete list of tags, see Wikipedia:Image copyright tags/Fair use.
Paintings, sculptures etc.:
- {{Art}} for low resolution images of two dimensional works of art which were made in 1923 or later
- {{Statue}} for images of three-dimensional works of art that are still under copyright
Cover art:
- {{Albumcover}} for music album or single covers
- {{Book cover}} for book covers
- {{Comiccover}} for comic book covers (trade paperbacks etc. go under {{Book cover}}, however)
- {{DVDcover}} for DVD covers
- {{Gamecover}} for video game covers
- {{Newspapercover}} for scans of entire newspaper pages
Motion picture screenshots:
- {{Movie poster}} for movie poster images of reduced quality
- {{Film-screenshot}} for screenshots from movies
- {{Musicpromo-screenshot}} for screenshots or stills from music videos or other promotional videos for music artists
- {{Tv-screenshot}} for screenshots from television programs
Software screenshots:
- {{Game-screenshot}} for screenshots of computer games and video games
- {{Software-screenshot}} for screenshots of software
