File:DallasCast.jpg
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The original cast of Dallas in Southfork Ranch. From left are: Steve Kanaly, Patrick Duffy, Victoria Principal, Barbara Bel Geddes, Jim Davis, Charlene Tilton, Larry Hagman and Linda Gray.
Fair Use rationale for Dallas (TV series)
- It is a low resolution shot.
- It is a promotional image intended for mass distribution.
- It identifies the Dallas series and main characters per encyclopedic use.
- It shows the Ewing family, the central characters of the series.
- It is highly unlikely that this image or another substantially similar one will be released under a free license, as the Dallas characters are copyrighted characters.
- There is no known free alternative.
Fair Use rationale for Ewing family
- It is a low resolution shot.
- It is a promotional image intended for mass distribution.
- It shows the Dallas family, the series' central characters.
- The article is about their family and the use of the one image prevents the need of several separate ones.
- It is highly unlikely that this image or another substantially similar one will be released under a free license, as the Dallas characters are copyrighted characters.
- There is no known free alternative.
Licensing
The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.
It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:
- the person(s), product, event, or subject in question;
- where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it;
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation;
qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.
Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.
Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.