File:Fifilaplumeposter.jpg

Promotional poster of film: Circus Angel. French film. Low resolution.

Source of image: Movie Covers (in French) http://www.moviecovers.com/film/titre_FIFI%20LA%20PLUME.html

Derived from a digital capture of the film poster. Creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party. Copyright held by the film company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

Although this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• This image is being used to illustrate the article of the movie in question and is used for informational purposes only.
• This image is a low resolution of the film poster.
• Because of the low resolution, image could not be used to make illegal copies for sale.
• The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
• It is believed that this image will not devalue the ability of the copyright holder to profit from the original work. In fact, it may encourage sales.
• As such, the image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
• The image is itself a subject of discussion and used for critical commentary in the article.
• Image is needed for educational purposes in relation to the subject it is discussing and to identify the film in cinematic history.
• Image used for critical commentary, reporting, and/or teaching qualifies as Fair Use.

• Image is significant because it was used to promote a notable film, produced and directed by an award winning French filmmaker.
• The image of the poster is used as the film's primary means of visual identification in the Circus Angel article.

This image is of a film poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of film posters to provide critical commentary on the film in question or of the film poster itself, not solely for illustration 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.

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