File:Maniac filmposter.jpg

Film poster for Maniac

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1. For an article about a film, the original poster is arguably one of the most important images that could be included.
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this film.
3. The image is of lower resolution than the original poster (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
4. The poster is to suggest something of the film's genre and style.
5. The poster is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original film in any way.
6. The poster is used on various websites, and its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
7. The poster's use on Wikipedia is entirely encyclopedic in nature.

1. Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the Film Poster/ VHS or DVD Cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the film company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

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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