File:THE LEGEND OF LEIGH BOWERY.jpg

Summary[edit]

uploaded from BBC's webpage promoting the documentary this screen shot is taken from

Fair use in Leigh Bowery[edit]

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a low resolution copy of a screen shot.
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the documentary film in any way.
3. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the film artwork on another DVD.
4. The image is significant because it is promotional photo for a notable documentary about a famous artist, Leigh Bowery.
5. Additionally, this photo is of a deceased person and it further illustrates the taste of the artist.

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