Template:Non-free video cover
This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray, etc. and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the video or the studio which produced the video in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of video covers
- to illustrate the videotape or disc 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 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 Use rationale examples.
- This tag should only be used for video covers.
- Try using Template:Non-free use rationale video cover to state the rationale.
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This template is an image copyright template. It is used to request a non-free use rationale for a cover image of a copyrighted video.
Parameters
When this template is applied without an image category:
{{Non-free video cover| image has rationale=yes}}
the page is automatically sorted into Category:Images of video covers, which has several subcategories. To sort a file into a subcategory, use the template with an image category included:
{{Non-free video cover | image has rationale=yes | Anime video covers}}