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File:Madonna Rain.jpg

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Summary

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Rain (Madonna song)
Description

Madonna in the music video for "Rain"

Source

Captured from Madonna's YouTube official channel

Article

Rain (Madonna song)

Portion used

Entire portion of a single frame.

Low resolution?

Yes.

Purpose of use

This image is a screenshot from the official music video directed by Mark Romanek. It is used to illustrate sourced commentary in the article regarding the video's visual style, cinematography, and Madonna's presentation. The screenshot directly depicts a scene described in the article, helping readers understand the specific imagery under discussion

Replaceable?

No free equivalent could adequately serve this purpose. A freely licensed substitute cannot be created, as it would fail to capture the copyrighted artistic direction and cinematography of the music video.

Other information
  1. No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the article's subject.
  2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
  3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
  4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
  5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
  6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
  7. The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section.
  8. The image is significant in identifying the subject of the article, which is the song.
  9. The image is used in the article section giving a visual description of Madonna in the music video of the song.
  10. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Rain (Madonna song)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Madonna_Rain.jpgtrue

Licensing

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Copyrighted
This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted music video or promotional video for a music artist, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the producers of the video and possibly also by the music artist. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots
  • for identification and critical commentary on the music video in question
  • 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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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:29, 2 October 2025Thumbnail for version as of 16:29, 2 October 2025327 × 245 (63 KB)Chrishm21 (talk | contribs)still depitcs an image sourced
11:50, 16 December 2021No thumbnail327 × 245 (21 KB)TenthAvenueFreezeOut (talk | contribs)Better quality upload
21:00, 5 July 2019No thumbnail255 × 188 (44 KB)Chrishm21 (talk | contribs)Better depiction of a shot that's actually described
12:48, 4 December 2016No thumbnail250 × 188 (9 KB)IndianBio (talk | contribs)Reverted to version as of 03:41, 10 April 2014 (UTC) No chrishm, the rationale does not pass the wide length shot
19:19, 3 December 2016No thumbnail282 × 138 (25 KB)Chrishm21 (talk | contribs)Better depiction of aforementioned scene
03:41, 10 April 2014No thumbnail250 × 188 (9 KB)Bluesatellite (talk | contribs)

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