File:Queen of the north sinking.jpg

Rationale of fair use for MV Queen of the North[edit]

1. The screenshot is of lower resolution and quality than the original video (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this content. This is the only image of this incident known to exist.
3. The picture is that of a passenger that has been released to multiple media outlets.
4. The incident pictured is described extensively in the article
5. This image has been used by multiple media outlets, no one outlet has exclusive ownership of the image

Summary[edit]

Source: Global BC News, March 23rd 2006, screencap taken by the original uploader.

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:Queen_of_the_north_sinking.jpg true