File:George Clooney as Doug Ross.jpg
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Summary
[edit | edit source]Promo image of George Clooney as Doug Ross in ER taken from the NBCUMV Website. The copyright holder is NBC Entertainment.
Fair use rationale
[edit | edit source]- The image shows the character in question as well as the setting.
- The image does not limit the producers to sell or market the product.
- Its use here is purely encyclopedic.
- The work is copyrighted, thus no free alternative is available.
- The image is a publicity photo released by the network which owns the copyright, intended for wide distribution to promote the show.
- The image is being used to illustrate the television show in question.
Licensing
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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.
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File usage
The following 3 pages use this file:
- Doug Ross
- File:DougRoss.jpg (file redirect)