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Fair use in The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
| Description |
A publicity photo of Steve Barton and Sarah Brightman in the final scene of The Phantom of the Opera. |
|---|---|
| Source |
Scanned from the Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera LP sleeve. |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
The image is a publicity photo released by the Really Useful Group which owns the copyright, intended for distribution to promote the musical. |
| Low resolution? |
It is a web-resolution image; any copies made from it would be of inferior quality. |
| Purpose of use |
The image is significant because it depicts one of the scenes from the musical that is the subject of the article. |
| Replaceable? |
No public domain or free image could be substituted, because cameras are forbidden during performances of the musical, and all images from it would be official and copyrighted. |
| Other information |
The image can be found on various websites, and its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is. |
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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.