File:Mulgrew as HelenDonnelly.jpg

Summary[edit]

Helen Donnelly of The Black Donnellys, portrayed by Kate Mulgrew, as screen-captured from the episode Lies to illustrate a copyrighted character. Considered a fair use image as all rights belong to the copyright holder of the character, NBC.

Fair Use Rationale[edit]

1. There exists no free alternative, nor can one be created to illustrate the character of Helen Donnelly. Helen Donnelly is a fictional character, all images of her are necessarily copyrighted.
2. This image respects commercial opportunities - a cropped screenshot cannot meaningfully compete with an approximately 44 minute episode.
3. The image represents a minimal use - it is a cropped screenshot - less than a single frame from an episode that has over 50,000 frames. It is of a reasonable low resolution.
4. The image has been previously published in broadcasted form in The Black Donnellys episode "Lies".
5. The image is of a character from a television shows. It is encyclopedic.
6. The image generally meets the image use policy.
7. The image is used in at least one article, Kate Mulgrew.
8. The image contributes to the article. As a fictional character, the subject is more easily visualised.
9. The image is used only in the article namespace.
10. The copyright is owned by NBC Universal Television Studio and Blackfriars Bridge Productions.

Licensing[edit]

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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mulgrew_as_HelenDonnelly.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 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.