Summary

Opening titles of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy BBC TV series.

Fair use rationale

1. This is a screenshot in an inferior graphics format, JPEG, and any copies of the image will also be inferior.
2. The image is being used only in two articles, one about the actual TV series, and the other is a lead article about the various versions and adaptations of the series. The image is used for informational and educational purposes in both articles.
3. It is believed that use of this image will not infringe on the rights of Douglas Adams's estate or the BBC, or interfere in the sales of the TV series by the BBC or its distributors.

Fair use rationale

It is believed that this image qualifies as fair use for the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy article because:

• The image is a low-resolution screen capture.
• The image is being used for informational purposes in the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy article and is the logo of the series.
• The use of the image will have no effect on the commercial distribution of the series by the copyright holder, the BBC.
• No free or PD images have been found.

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 Main Page, hosted on servers in the United States by the GSD, qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on the GSD or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. Fair use https://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=File:Hitchhikers_Guide_TV_Titles.jpg true