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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Cropped screenshot of the Ur-Quan warning the player in a dialog screen, as seen in the open-source game The Ur-Quan Masters, an authorized free port of Star Control II.

Author or
copyright owner

Paul Reiche III and Fred Ford

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

Ur-Quan Masters, an open source remake of Star Control 2, the game content of which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license

Date of publication

1992

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

Ur-Quan

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

This image demonstrates the appearance of the Ur-Quan, the main antagonist of the open source Ur-Quan Masters game, a remake of Star Control 2 and sequel to Star Control 1. The text further demonstrates their personality.

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

This is the most freely usable version of the image available. Images from original Star Control and Star Control 3 are not released as open-source.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

Cropped screenshot from an open-source game, slightly obscured by in-game text to demonstrate dialog gameplay and personality. All content from the game has been released for non-commercial use. See licensing information below:

https://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/The_Ur-Quan_Masters_Project_FAQ#Under_what_license_is_the_game_released.3F

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

The Ur-Quan Masters is a freely available open-source game, and the original creators have released a license to their content for non-commercial use.

Other information

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Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ur-Quan//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ur-Quan_from_Ur-Quan_Masters_and_Star_Control_2.jpegtrue

Licensing

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots

to visually identify the game in question
on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:10, 11 May 2020		440 × 226 (64 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	23:17, 9 May 2020	No thumbnail	760 × 392 (142 KB)	Jontesta (talk \| contribs)	Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard

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