File:Bird Beanball.png

Summary[edit]

Randy Johnson hitting a bird in a 2001 spring training game. 95 mph fastball

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:Bird_Beanball.png true

Fair use rationale[edit]

This screenshot falls under Fair use for the article Randy Johnson because:

• It is a photograph of an event that is significant with respect to Johnson as a baseball player and with respect to the baseball culture.
• No free image is available to illustrate the event, and because it is unrepeatable, a free photograph cannot be taken to replace this one.
• It meets general Wikipedia content requirements.
• It is very low resolution.
• It meets general fair use requirements, as follows:
  • The purpose and character of the use is informational in nature; the image is used to explain and enhance understanding of a unique event in Johnson's career that received significant media coverage and endures in the public memory with respect to Johnson in particular and Major League Baseball in general.
  • The nature of the work is fundamentally informational, rather than creative. It is a screenshot of a video transmission of a sporting event, whose primary purpose was to provide viewers with information about the events of the game itself.
  • A very small amount of the original work is used. The entire work is a videorecording of more than two hours in length; here, a low-resolution screenshot of a single frame of the game (approx. 1/30 of a second of footage) is excerpted.
  • This usage has no market impact on the economic viability of a videorecording of a spring training baseball game from 2001.

Animated image[edit]

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