File:ForrestGumpJFKScreenshot.jpg

Summary[edit]

Movie screenshot of the 1994 film Forrest Gump. The image shows Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) with President John F. Kennedy.
Copyright: © 1994 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Source[edit]

Image taken by DVD screenshot: http://screenmusings.org/ForrestGump/pages/fg_0219.htm

Rationale of fair use for Forrest Gump screenshot[edit]

1. The screenshot is of lower resolution than the original film (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
2. The screenshot does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the film in any way.
3. The screenshot is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original film in any way.
4. The screenshot's use on Wikipedia is entirely encyclopedic in nature.
5. The image has been published outside of Wikipedia, including the above source.
6. The image is being used in article namespace, specifically the article wikilinked in the heading.
7. The image displays the visual effects that were used to include Tom Hanks in archival footage which is mentioned in the production section of the article.

Licensing[edit]

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