File:Licensed and collectible US Monopoly sets.jpg

Summary[edit]

This photograph depicts ten specially licensed and collectible sets of the board game Monopoly, produced between 1997-2006 for marketing within the United States. From top right, clockwise: Vintage Game Collection Edition, 2005, sold exclusively at Target Corporation stores; Mega Edition, 2006, produced by Winning Moves Games; Here and Now [USA] Edition, 2006, produced by Parker Brothers/Hasbro; Looney Tunes Limited Collectors Edition, 1999, sold exclusively at Warner Brothers Studio Stores; The Powerpuff Girls Edition, 2001, produced by Parker Brothers/Hasbro; Peanuts Collectors Edition, 2002, produced by USAopoly; Chicago Edition, 2000, produced by USAopoly; Wizard of Oz Collectors Edition, 1998, sold exclusively at Warner Brothers Studio Stores; Marshall Field's Edition, 1997, sold exclusively at Marshall Field's stores; U.S. Space Program Edition, 1998, produced by USAopoly.

Fair use rationale[edit]

This image is used solely in the article History of the board game Monopoly to illustrate a few of the licensed and special edition versions of the board game. It is not believed that the display of this board game artwork, in an original photograph, will infringe upon the copyright holders of licensed artwork (Time-Warner, Macy's and United Feature Syndicate) or the game's manufacturers (Parker Brothers/Hasbro, Winning Moves Games and USAopoly). It is further not believed that such use in the article named will damage any of the named companies' abilities to sell their products, or protect their trademarks or copyrights, as the photograph is being used for educational and informative purposes only. The artwork and logos are also displayed at a low resolution, using an inferior graphics format (JPEG), which would hinder attempts at commercial reuse.

Licensing[edit]

This image is of a board game cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the publisher of the board game. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of board game covers to illustrate the board game in question, where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Licensed_and_collectible_US_Monopoly_sets.jpg true

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