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[edit] Summary

Promotional image of the Gorillaz. Copyright EMI Records / Gorillaz Partnership

[edit] Licensing

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
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 usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

[edit] Fair use in Gorillaz

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 entity that the logo represents, the Gorillaz, a cartoon musical group.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
The logo is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the logo.
Since the Gorillaz only exist as a drawing, no image of them is producible as an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image. Therefore this image is not replaceable except by another fair use image.

--AnonEMouse ^(squeak) 16:28, 24 July 2007 (UTC)