File:Stomp! Chaosium board game cover 1978.png

Summary edit

The cover of Stomp! (game) published by Chaosium 1978. Cover by William Church.

Fair use in Stomp! (game) Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: It illustrates an educational article about the game from which the cover illustration was taken. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the game. It is a low resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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This image is of a board game cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the publisher of the board game. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of board game covers to illustrate the board game in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stomp!_Chaosium_board_game_cover_1978.png true

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