File:Cowboy Bebop.png

Cover of the PlayStation 2 game Cowboy Bebop: Tsuioku no Yakyoku.

This image is cover art for a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of game cover art to visually identify the game in question on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, constitutes fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cowboy_Bebop.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 video game covers. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game cover. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

This image is acceptable as fair use in the Cowboy Bebop: Tsuioku no Yakyoku article because:

1. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose.
2. The image is not used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media.
3. The image is small and low resolution.