File:VirginIslandsDailyNews.png

Summary[edit]

The cover of The Virgin Islands Daily News on August 27, 2007. Image found at [1]

Fair use rationale for use on The Virgin Islands Daily News[edit]

1. This image is the cover of a newspaper and is used to illustrate text about that newspaper.
2. Use of the cover visually identifies the newspaper in a manner that mere prose cannot.
3. This is a low-resolution image.
4. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work, namely, you cannot get any news from this image.
5. The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
6. The use of this image will not limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute or make a profit from the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the newspaper.
7. The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
8. No free or public domain images are available as issues of this newspaper are still under copyright.
9. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.

Licensing[edit]

This image is a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the newspaper or the individual contributors who worked on the articles or images depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of newspaper pages to illustrate either the publication of the article or issue in question, with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, 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. Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VirginIslandsDailyNews.png 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 tag should only be used for images of newspapers. Do not use it for other purposes. Template:Newspaper 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.