Template:Non-free television screenshot

Copyrighted

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

Attention

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.

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This template is an image copyright template. It is used to request a non-free use rationale for a screenshot of a copyrighted television series.

Parameters

When this template is applied without an image category:

{{Non-free television screenshot|image_has_rationale=yes}}

the page is automatically sorted into Category:Screenshots of television, which has several subcategories. To sort a file into a subcategory, use the template with an image category included:

{{Non-free television screenshot|image_has_rationale=yes|Animated series screenshots}}

Parameters

See also