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Summary

Scan of only known picture of a Nightmare imp in a little-known press release beta version of Doom for the Sony PlayStation. The pictured monster species was entirely removed from all maps before the game's official release. Original source of image is November, 1995 issue #2 of Maximum: The Video Game Magazine, published in the United Kingdom, page 56.

Licensing

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It is believed that the use of such screenshots in the Doom Wiki qualifies as fair use because:

No freely licensed equivalent can exist. In some cases, the software's functionality could conceivably be replicated by a free alternative, but such an alternative would be insufficient to the Doom Wiki's goal of documenting the original creative work.
The screenshot is used to convey ideas which cannot be adequately represented by text alone, as part of a journalistic or analytical discussion about some aspect of the software, or a historical record of its context in the Doom community. The image is never used in a purely decorative manner.
The screenshots included in the Doom Wiki represent a trivially small portion of the original copyrighted media, which in no way replaces the reader's experience of using the software. Therefore, their reproduction here does not infringe on the market role of the copyrighted publication.
The image was captured by the person who uploaded it.
The graphics are unmodified from their original form, possibly excepting simple labeling and scaling.
For each image on the Doom Wiki, an associated description page attributes its source and details the rationale for fair use of copyrighted material. This description page is easily accessible whenever the image is presented in an article.

This image is a scan of a portion of the contents of a book, magazine, newspaper, or other publication, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the publisher of the cited item. The content it depicts may have additional owners, as identified by other notices on this page. It is believed that the limited use of such low-resolution excerpts on The Doom Wiki, hosted on servers in the United States by MancuNET, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law, provided that:

There is no possible free alternative,
The purpose is to illustrate an article discussing the contents of the scan in an encyclopedic context,
A trivially small portion of the work is utilized, and
The excerpt does not contain significant text print from the publication, and therefore is not infringing on its market role as a print publication.

Other use of this image, on this site or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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