File:TheWireBaltimore.jpg

• Author: User: East718
• Source: Self-made.
• Description: A screenshot from HBO drama The Wire showing a real Baltimore location displaying graffiti of a colloquialism used to describe the city because of its high murder rate.

This image, TheWire07.jpg, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (Opark 77) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. it is a promotional screenshot from a television series;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the DVD of the show in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the program because it is low resolution;
4. the image is accompanied by a description of the slang phrase pictured and critical commentary about the role of this sort of device on the show.
5. the image is significant because it identifies a real-life Baltimore location and graffiti illustrating a commonly used play on words (though the graffiti has since been painted over [1], hence new free images of it cannot be made).

This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for identification of and critical commentary on the television program 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, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheWireBaltimore.jpg true

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 template is only for use on images which are screenshots from television. For screenshots of title cards of television programs or station IDs, use {{Non-free title-card}} instead. Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.