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But if you can't find a libre image, that's okay -- under the U.S. [[wikipedia:fair use|fair use]] law, ATT can use images to represent a work, so long as we're not providing a big enough portion of the original content that it could affect the profits of the original work.<ref name="big-copy">"Big enough" or "important chunk" in this case means "people won't want to read, watch, or listen to the work if they read the excerpt", so there's no hard-and-fast size here. "Big enough" could be as small as a character's name, if that name is "whodunnit" in ''[[The Mousetrap]]''.</ref> This is a necessary part of representing works in media, the vast majority of which are sold for profit. Remember, media companies often distribute publicity images that are meant to be shared for informative purposes.
In any case, you should always add the license for the work. Each image has a corresponding page in the "File:" namespace to store the metadata for the image. On this page, you should select the best [[All The Tropes:List of Image License Templates|template for the license]], or otherwise describe our right to have it on our website. If the image does not have a free license, make sure to mark the image as fair use.
== Can I just copy over stuff from TV Tropes?==
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