File:Law & Order LA Title Card.jpg
Law_&_Order_LA_Title_Card.jpg (421 × 236 pixels, file size: 10 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
[edit]Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- The exhibition of low-resolution images of logos, to illustrate the television program 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.
- It is a low resolution copy of a logo.
- It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the TV series or said image.
- The image is significant for the article as it shows visual from series.
- No free or public domain images are possible, as this is a logo.
- Image is intended as publicity for the network.
- It is used for informational purposes only.
- Such images are distributed with implicit license for their use in discussing the subject that is being promoted.
- Image is of considerably lower resolution than the original.
- Copies made from it will be of very inferior quality.
- Its use does not detract from either the original image, or from the network itself.
- Image is used solely for the identification of the subject.
- The further use of this image on Wikipedia is not believed to disadvantage the copyright holder in any way.
Description |
Logo for Law & Order: LA. |
---|---|
Source |
Unknown, but can easily be replaced by known sources if someone wants to raise the issue. |
Article | |
Portion used |
Just the logo, which is trivial compared to the television show as a whole, the actual product being sold. |
Low resolution? |
Web resolution. |
Purpose of use |
Identify the Law & Order: LA TV show. |
Replaceable? |
Irreplaceable. It's a copyrighted logo; no free image is possible that is also correct for what the cover actually is. Nothing has been released into the public domain to my knowledge. |
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Law & Order: LA//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Law_%26_Order_LA_Title_Card.jpgtrue |
Licensing
[edit]This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, television or audio-visual presentation, representing either a production logo, title card, or station ID or related logo/title graphic. The copyright for it is most likely owned by the entity which produced or distributed the media. It is believed that the use of a limited number of web-resolution screenshots
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. | |
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 00:30, 4 November 2017 | 421 × 236 (10 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) | |
22:39, 24 April 2011 | No thumbnail | 533 × 300 (21 KB) | MikeAllen (talk | contribs) | Reduced file and removed TV rating |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage
The following page uses this file: