File:Metal Gear cover.jpg

Summary[edit]

Japanese front cover of Metal Gear for the MSX2. Taken from GameFAQs.

Rationale for fair use in Metal Gear (video game)[edit]

• The public display of the image is in no way detrimental to copyright holder's commercial interests
• The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original game in any way.
• This image has been used in several websites, and so use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is
• The image is of lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality)
• No free or public domain images equivalent can be found, because this is the original artwork.

License[edit]

This image is cover art for 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 images of game cover art 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 United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Metal_Gear_cover.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 covers. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game cover. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.