File:Shanti film.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Shanti (Kannada film) edit

1. There are no freely available images that would portray the film's subject effectively
2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell the film.
3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic, portraying the leading character.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The image is significant in identifying the subject of the article, which is the film itself.
8. The image is used in the article namespace.
9. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for critical commentary and discussion of the film 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, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This is only for images which are screenshots from films. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true