File:Hitchhikers Guide TV Titles.jpg

Summary[edit]

Opening titles of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC TV series.

Fair use rationale[edit]

1. This is a screenshot in an inferior graphics format, JPEG, and any copies of the image will also be inferior.
2. The image is being used only in two articles, one about the actual TV series, and the other is a lead article about the various versions and adaptations of the series. The image is used for informational and educational purposes in both articles.
3. It is believed that use of this image will not infringe on the rights of Douglas Adams's estate or the BBC, or interfere in the sales of the TV series by the BBC or its distributors.

Fair use rationale[edit]

It is believed that this image qualifies as fair use for the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) article because:

• The image is a low-resolution screen capture.
• The image is being used for informational purposes in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series) article and is the logo of the series.
• The use of the image will have no effect on the commercial distribution of the series by the copyright holder, the BBC.
• No free or PD images have been found.

Licensing[edit]

This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for identification of and critical commentary on the television program 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, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitchhikers_Guide_TV_Titles.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 template is only for use on images which are screenshots from television. For screenshots of title cards of television programs or station IDs, use {{Non-free title-card}} instead. Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.