Template:Non-free poster

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.

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:Non-free poster/doc.

This template is used on approximately 80,000 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

This template must be placed in the Licensing section of non-free posters to identify them as such. Note: Posters with US copyrights before 1964 are mostly in the public domain due to failure to formally renew the copyright on the poster. In this case the template {{PD-art|PD-US-not renewed}} should be used instead of this template. See Copyright renewal.

Usage

Simply insert this template into the Licensing section of an image description page. It should look like this:

==Licensing==
{{Non-free poster}}

Doing so will alternatively put the image into Non-free posters category. However, you have the option of putting the image into one of the appropriate sub-categories such as Fair use images of event posters, Fair use images of film posters, Animated film posters, Fair use images of television program posters, Fair use images of theatre posters, etc. To so, simply pass the name of the category as the first unnamed parameter. The following example puts the image into Fair use images of movie posters:

==Licensing==
{{Non-free poster|Fair use images of film posters}}

Make sure you preview your edit and verify the result.

This template is able to make use of category redirects, so

{{Non-free poster|Fair use images of movie posters}}

will resolve to Category:Fair use images of film posters.