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A poison headcrab zombie, from the computer game Half-Life 2. Images taken by User:ZS from end of Highway 17 level, and uploaded as Image:HalfLife2 FastZombie & PoisonZombie.jpg on 14:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC), before it was cropped and resized.

[edit] Licensing: Fair use for headcrab

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for identification and critical commentary on
- the computer or video game in question or
- the copyrighted character(s) or item(s) depicted on the screenshot 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 United States copyright law, as such display does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to sell the copyrighted material, is not being used to generate profit in this context, and presents ideas that cannot be exhibited otherwise. See Wikipedia:Fair use and fair use rationale.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

The author asserts that the image qualifies fair use for the following reasons:

Valve Corporation has not release creature-specific images into public domain.
The image is necessary to describe the appearance of headcrab zombies; nothing else.
The screenshot is not intended to hinder the copyright owner's ability to sell the game.
This image is sufficiently small, but must be large enough to illustrate crucial details.

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(del) (cur) 12:25, 11 January 2007 . . ZS (Talk | contribs) . . 370×499 (103,871 bytes) (==Summary== A poison headcrab zombie, from the computer game ''Half-Life 2''. Images taken by User:ZS from end of '''Highway 17''' level, and uploaded as Image:HalfLife2 FastZombie & PoisonZombie.jpg on 14:22, 28 April 2006 (UTC), before )