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Contents 1 Summary 2 Fair use for B movie 3 Fair use for B movies (1980s to the present) 4 Fair use for Blood Simple 5 Licensing

Summary

Description: Low-resolution reproduction of poster for B movie film noir Blood Simple (1984)
Copyright holder: Circle Films
Source: Scan from private collection

Fair use for B movie

This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (DCGeist) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. it is a low resolution copy of a movie poster;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
4. the image is significant because it illustrates (a) a significant B-budget film noir by Joel and Ethan Coen, two of the leading filmmakers in the form and (b) the marketing of such movies during the historical period discussed in the accompanying text.

Fair use for B movies (1980s to the present)

This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (DCGeist) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. it is a low resolution copy of a movie poster;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
4. the image is significant because it illustrates (a) a significant B-budget film noir by Joel and Ethan Coen, two of the leading filmmakers in the form and (b) the marketing of such movies during the historical period discussed in the accompanying text.

Fair use for Blood Simple

This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (DCGeist) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. it is a low resolution copy of a movie poster;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film or poster in any way;
3. copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork on another poster; and
4. the image is significant because it illustrates the primary subject matter of the article and its marketing as discussed in the text.

Licensing

This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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current	04:41, 10 January 2007		252×400 (29 KB)	DCGeist (Talk | contribs)	(== Summary == low-res image of poster for B movie film noir ''Blood Simple'' (1984) == Fair use for B movie == This image is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (DCGeist) feel it is covered by)

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