File:Steve McQueen and Wally Floody 001.jpg

DVD capture from the documentary The Great Escape: Heroes Underground.

It is believed the use of this image in the article The Great Escape (film) fact versus fiction is covered by the "fair use" legal doctrine because:

• It features an actor, Steve McQueen, while working on a film based on real events. Wally Floody was involved in those events and acted as technical advisor to the film. This image gives an idea of how much he was involved.

• This image is being used to illustrate work being done on the film which is the topic of this article.

• Its use in Wikipedia is for nonprofit educational purposes only and does not detract from the original work.

• It is of much lower resolution than the original photo (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).

• It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.

• No free or public domain images have been located for this photo.

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for critical commentary and discussion of the film and its contents 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.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This is only for images which are screenshots from films. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true