File:Settlers of canaan box.jpg

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:Settlers_of_canaan_box.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.

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

1. It illustrates educational articles about the game from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the game.
3. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods.
4. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
5. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

David aukerman ^talk 13:57, 6 June 2007 (UTC)