File:MayfairCompanyWarBoxCover.jpg

Summary

Licensing

This image is of a board game cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the publisher of the board game. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of board game covers to illustrate the board game in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MayfairCompanyWarBoxCover.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 tag should only be used for board game covers. Do not use it for other purposes. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

Fair use for Mayfair Games

The use of this image in the article named / linked above is claimed as Fair use of copyrighted material because:

1. it is a low resolution copy of a board game cover;
2. the article named above concerns the publication in question;
3. the inclusion of the image in the named article makes a significant contribution to the article because it identifies the game in question;
4. no free version of the image is available that would serve the equivalent purpose;
5. the inclusion of the image in the named article does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the original product in any way;
6. the image cannot be used to replace the original market role of the game in question.

This image does not meet Wikipedia's non-free content policy. The image needs a separate fair-use rationale for each article that links to (or names) the article it is used in. An explanation of how to do this can be found at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline – the easiest way to add a fair-use rationale is with a template such as {{non-free use rationale}}. If this is not fixed within a week, the image will be removed from any articles without a proper rationale, and may be deleted. Please remove this tag once the problem is fixed. Administrators: Check the image talk page for comments before deleting this file. This image does not have an adequate rationale for the following article(s): Downbelow Station