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|style="width:50px"|[[File:Copyright.svg|50px|Copyright]]
|[[File:Copyright.svg|48px|Copyrighted game sprite]]
|style="padding-left:5px"|This is a sprite of a '''non-free copyrighted video or computer game(s)''', and the copyright for it is most likely '''owned by either Nintendo and/or its affiliates''', or the publisher/producer and/or artist(s) producing the work in question.  
|''This is a [[wikipedia:Sprite (computer graphics)|sprite]] originally from a '''[[wikipedia:Copyright|copyrighted]] computer or video game''', and the '''copyright''' for it is most likely held by the company that developed the game. It is believed that the use of a '''limited number''' of '''web-resolution''' sprites for '''identification and critical commentary on the computer or video game in question''' or '''the copyrighted character(s) depicted by the sprite in question''' qualifies as '''[[wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]]''' under [[wikipedia:Copyright law of the United States|United States copyright law]], as such display '''does not significantly impede the right of the copyright holder to sell the copyrighted material''', is '''not being used to turn a profit in this context''', and presents ideas that '''cannot be exhibited otherwise'''. See [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Copyrights|Wikipedia:Copyrights]] and [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline|fair use rationale]].
 
It is believed that the use of sprites to identify and describe the subject in question on the Mariopedia, when no free use alternative exists due to the image being copyrighted, hosted on servers in the United Kingdom, qualifies as [[Wikipedia:Fair use|fair use]] under [[Wikipedia:United States copyright law|United States copyright law]]. Any other uses of this image, on the Mariopedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See [[Mariopedia: Copyrights|Copyrights]] for more information.
|}<includeonly>[[Category:Game sprites]]</includeonly><noinclude>
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