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This file may fail Wikipedia's first non-free content criterion in that it illustrates a subject for which a free image might reasonably be found or created that adequately provides the same information, or which could be adequately covered with text alone because: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pac-Man_gameplay.png The official Bandai Namco channel on YouTube released a video containing gameplay of original Pac-Man. The copyright owner of the game released the video under the Creative Commons Attribution (3.0 Unported) license.. Unless it is determined to be irreplaceable, the file will be deleted after Thursday, 17 April 2025. Please do not remove this tag. Note : if you believe that a free replacement image cannot be reasonably found or created please add one of the following without removing this tag: {{di-replaceable non-free use disputed|Your reason that a free replacement can not be found or created}}  Administrators: Ensure the claim of replaceability is sound and not legitimately disputed before deleting this file.

This image is a screenshot from a video game, and its copyright is most likely held by the game's publisher or developer. It is believed that the use of low-resolution screenshots to visually identify the game in question on the English Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, constitutes fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image may be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pac-man.png true

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag should only be used for video game screenshots. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Game rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale video game screenshot. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

This image is valid for use on the page Pac-Man under fair use criteria because:

1. There is no free equivalent
2. It will not hinder the copyright owner's ability to sell the related product
3. It is of low resolution, and it is not used extensively
4. Similar images are posted elsewhere
5. This image helps contribute to encyclopedic content
6. Has no unresolvable problems with the Wikipedia:Image use policy
7. Is on at least one page because it is on Pac-Man
8. Is significant to the Pac-Man article because it shows a typical screen in the game
9. Shouldn't be used outside of the article namespace
10. Has this notice as well as a copyright tag