File:Monopoly UK postcard.jpg

Summary[edit]

Scan of a postcard, replicating a 1936 poster, originally published in the United Kingdom, introducing the board game Monopoly, published there by Waddingtons. Notable on the card's artwork is the incorrect layout of spaces on the game board. On the reverse, the card incorrectly states that the game's spaces replaced "New York's street names with London counterparts." The original spaces are in fact from Atlantic City, New Jersey. Scanned by John D. Buell on 16 August 2006.

Copyright on the postcard is held by the Robert Opie Collection. Copyright on the design elements of Monopoly is held by Hasbro.

Fair use rationale:

1. This postcard illustrates the introduction of the game of Monopoly to the United Kingdom in 1936, thus being historically significant.
2. The image is used in the article History of the board game Monopoly for illustrative and educational purposes only.
3. The image appears in a lower resolution than the original, and uses an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
4. It is not believed that use of this image will infringe on the copyrights of the Robert Opie Collection, who manufactured the card based on an original poster, or Hasbro, who own the copyrights for the board game Monopoly.

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.

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 tag should only be used for posters. Try using Template:Non-free use rationale poster to state 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. Fair use true