File:Haunting Sarah poster.jpg

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Fair use rationale for Haunting Sarah article[edit]

This copyrighted image is used in the English-language Wikipedia article "Haunting Sarah". The manner of said use constitutes a "fair use" under United States copyright law. Specifically:

1. The English-language Wikipedia is a project of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit charitable organization.
2. The article for which the use occurs is purely educational in nature.
3. The sole purpose of this use is to illustrate the film in question.
4. Said image is the primary means of visual identification of the main topic of the article.
5. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for the illegal production of counterfeit goods.
6. Since it is copyrighted poster, the image is not replaceable with a free content image.
7. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the image.
8. The market for the original product will not be diminished by this use of the image.

Copyright for this image is owned by Lifetime.

Licensing[edit]

This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration 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, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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