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=== Fair dealing and Fair use considerations === | === Fair dealing and Fair use considerations === | ||
The fair dealing doctrine used in the [[ | The fair dealing doctrine used in the [[United Kingdom]], [[Canada]], and [[Australia]], and the fair use doctrine used in the [[United States]] (but not in many other jurisdictions) are frequently abused. Try to limit your use of this tag to screen captures, promotional photos from presskits and other publicity items issued by the [[BBC]], album covers, book covers, DVD/video covers, movie posters, and corporate logos. If you have questions about whether an image is fair use, ask at [[Wikipedia:Fair use]]. | ||
The critical thing to remember -- our use of such images relies on a portion of the doctrine that says we can use a low-resolution public-but-copyrighted image (like an album cover, book cover, or movie poster) for the purpose of illustrating an article. A high-resolution image, suitable for purposes other than illustration/education (such as, say, printing bootleg CD covers), would not be considered fair use and would quickly be put up on [[Tardis:Images for deletion]]. | The critical thing to remember -- our use of such images relies on a portion of the doctrine that says we can use a low-resolution public-but-copyrighted image (like an album cover, book cover, or movie poster) for the purpose of illustrating an article. A high-resolution image, suitable for purposes other than illustration/education (such as, say, printing bootleg CD covers), would not be considered fair use and would quickly be put up on [[Tardis:Images for deletion]]. | ||
=== Use of images from the Doctor Who Image Archive === | === Use of images from the Doctor Who Image Archive === | ||
