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[edit] Summary

Screenshot from the 1973 film The Sting, displaying Paul Newman. This licensing for this film is legitimate, as it is being used in congruence with Wikipedia's policy "for identification and critical commentary on the film and its contents".

[edit] Licensing

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 web-resolution screenshots

for identification and critical commentary on 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 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 described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair-use Rationale

The image satisfies "fair use" doctrines because:

The image is of inferior quality than the screen capture, and therefore not a threat to copyright holder.
The image is used for identification and commentary on the fictional character.
No public free image is available which could replace this.
The use of the image in no way diminishes the ability of the copyright holder to profit from the original work.