File:SimsSS.jpg

Summary[edit]

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Source: http://www.streettech.com/archives_Special/sims2.jpg

Fair use for The Sims (video game)[edit]

The picture is subject to copyright I (ClonedPickle) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• It is used only in the article to which Fair Use is claimed.
• It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the video game represented in any way.
• No free alternative that could enscapulate the situation here is available.
• It is a low resolution of a video game screen shot.
• It is used for visual purposes, to show a type of situation in the game.

Licensing[edit]

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots to visually identify the game in question on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SimsSS.jpg true

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 tag should only be used for video game screenshots. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot. Additionally, please specify at least one platform in the first parameter. See usage below. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.