File:Worldatwar.jpg

Summary[edit]

The opening title logo used in The World at War British television documentary series.

Licensing[edit]

Fair use in The World at War[edit]

This copyrighted image is used in the English-language Wikipedia article "The World at War." The manner of said use constitutes a "fair use" under United States copyright law. Specifically:

1. The English-language Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization.
2. The article for which this use occurs is purely educational in nature and, thus, is non-commercial.
3. The sole purpose of this use of the copyrighted image is to illustrate the television series in question.
4. Said image is the primary means of visual identification of the main topic of the article; that is, the television series.
5. The image is used only once in the article, and is used in a section or "information box" that is neutral in tone.
6. The title screen of the media is not the "content" specifically being sold by the publisher of the media, i.e., it is not part of the narrative content of the series, but is rather the introductory logo used to identify the series.
7. The market for the original television series will not be diminished by this use of the image. In fact, this use is likely to encourage the increased legitimate sales of recorded media of the series and television viewership.
8. Because the image is provided at a low resolution inappropriate for re-printing the screenshot cover, its usage on Wikipedia does not pose a problem of aiding media piracy or make it so that the copyright holder could not in the future successfully re-sell the image as a print or poster on its own.
9. Since it is a screenshot from a copyrighted television series, the image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
10. Digital versions of this image have been previously published on numerous websites, so this use on Wikipedia does not make the image significantly more accessible.
11. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is produced, sponsored, or authorized by the owner of the image.
12. The audio had been graded from mono to a 2.0 channels, meaning it could be done in a 5.1 surround sound.

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos. Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Worldatwar.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 is only for use on images of logos. Template:Non-free use rationale logo may be helpful for stating the rationale. Please do not use this template to tag non-free icons of computer software. Such items should be tagged with {{Non-free computer icon}} template. Regarding uses other than in the original article: Check the non-free use criteria and do not assume that existing rationales can be simply copied and pasted, as they may not necessarily apply. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.