File:Blindeye.jpg

Summary[edit]

Taken from [1]

Fair use in Blind Eye Sees All[edit]

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

1. It is a low resolution copy of a DVD cover.
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the DVD in any way.
3. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another DVD.
4. The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article.
5. The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Butthole Surfers.

Licensing[edit]

This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray, etc. and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the video or the studio which produced the video in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of video covers to illustrate the videotape or disc in question 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.

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