File:Old American Barn Dance.jpg

Summary

Still frame of the 1953 opening graphic of the DuMont network's The Old American Barn Dance Author: Kling Studios, Chicago Source: Digital image from kinescope Non-free use Rationale: Though this image may be to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

It is a historically significant image of a TV program graphic and cannot be replaced with another image. It is of lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it would be of very inferior quality. The image is only being used for informational purposes. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the image and its historical significance are the object of discussion in the article. The article in which fair use is claimed for this photo is The Old American Barn Dance.

Licensing:

This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for identification of and critical commentary on the television program and its contents 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, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Old_American_Barn_Dance.jpg 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 template is only for use on images which are screenshots from television. For screenshots of title cards of television programs or station IDs, use {{Non-free title-card}} instead. Template:Non-free use 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.