Summary

This image of the Enterprise is cropped—and reduced in quality—from an image used on StarTrek.com to promote the release of the remastered Star Trek episodes.

Fair use rationale for USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

This image may be linked on the following article in which it is a primary subject: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

Though the picture is subject to copyright. I (JustinTime55) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The design of the Enterprise is a copyrighted three-dimensional artistic design. Therefore, any representation of said design is a derivative work, and no free image can be created.
2. it does not limit the copyright owner’s rights to sell the show, DVDs, games, posters, models, toys, etc.;
3. it illustrates and identifies, in a way text alone cannot, a fictional ship and the television show in which it is featured.

Fair use rationale for Starship Enterprise

This image may be linked on the following article in which it is a primary subject: Starship Enterprise

Though the picture is subject to copyright. I (MJBurrage) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The design of the Enterprise is a copyrighted three-dimensional artistic design. Therefore, any representation of said design is a derivative work, and no free image can be created.
2. it does not limit the copyright owner’s rights to sell the show, DVDs, games, posters, models, toys, etc.;
3. it illustrates and identifies, in a way text alone cannot, a fictional ship and the television show in which it is featured.

Fair use rationale for Spacecraft in Star Trek

This image may be linked on the following article in which it is a primary subject: Spacecraft in Star Trek

Though the picture is subject to copyright. I (MJBurrage) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The design of the Enterprise is a copyrighted three-dimensional artistic design. Therefore, any representation of said design is a derivative work, and no free image can be created.
2. it does not limit the copyright owner’s rights to sell the show, DVDs, games, posters, models, toys, etc.;
3. it illustrates and identifies, in a way text alone cannot, a fictional ship and the television show in which it is featured.

Fair use rationale for Star Trek

This image may be linked on the following article in which it is a primary subject: Star Trek

Though the picture is subject to copyright. I (MJBurrage) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The design of the Enterprise is a copyrighted three-dimensional artistic design. Therefore, any representation of said design is a derivative work, and no free image can be created.
2. it does not limit the copyright owner’s rights to sell the show, DVDs, games, posters, models, toys, etc.;
3. it illustrates and identifies, in a way text alone cannot, a fictional ship and the television show in which it is featured.

Licensing

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion. It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question; where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it; on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation; qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos. Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license. Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org?pojem=File:USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701),_ENT1231.jpg true