File:L-shapedroom .jpg

Poster for the film The L-Shaped Room (1962)

Source: www.moviegoods.com

This image is subject to copyright. However, it is fair use in the article The L-Shaped Room and no other articles because:

1. It is a low resolution scan (copies would be of inferior quality due to the resolution)
2. It does not limit the original copyright holder's rights or ability to sell the image or the Video Tape cover in any way
3. It is being used to illustrate the film in the article
4. Copies of this image could not be used to make illegal copies of the film
5. There are no free images to illustrate the film

Any use of this image in other articles would require an additional fair-use rationale. --Melly42 00:18, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

This image is of a film 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 film posters to provide critical commentary on the film in question or of the film poster itself, not solely for illustration where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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.

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