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Movie poster for the feature film Snowball Express. Copyright The Walt Disney Company, 1972. Used to illustrate film being described.

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. No free images are known to exist, and, given the nature of the work, none are likely to be released.
2. The image is used for identification and informational purposes, and is not believed to detract significantly from the original work.
3. It illustrates an educational article about the programme.
4. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the programme.
5. It is a low resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell, produce, or advertise the show in any way.

This image is of a film 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 film posters to provide critical commentary on the film in question or of the film poster itself, not solely for illustration where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information, 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.

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