File:Sam-Grainger.jpg

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Summary

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Fair use rationales

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Sam Grainger
Description

Publicity photo of a non-living article subject

Source

https://web.archive.org/web/20070609141952/www.heroesonline.com/Photos/history/pages/sam-grainger.htm

Article

Sam Grainger

Portion used

Crop of a larger image; less than half of larger image

Low resolution?

Small size unsuitable to use for high quality reproduction

Purpose of use

Image is used for purposes of illustration in the above-named article, a subject of public interest.

Replaceable?

This publicity image distributed by a comic book convention does not appear to be protected by copyright. If protected by copyright, a free-use alternative does not exist.

Other information

The image is covered by fair use because:

  1. It is a low-resolution image unsuitable for high-end reproduction;
  2. The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit any copyright holder's rights or ability to sell or distribute the original work;
  3. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the topic in the article.
  4. This original purpose of this image is identification of the person therein, a since-deceased public individual, therefore image not used in misleading manner.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Sam Graingerhttp://70.231.62.181/index.php/File:Sam-Grainger.jpgtrue

Summary

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Publicity still: Sam Grainger prior to 1990 death. This is a crop of a promotional photograph of the late comic book artist, from an archived, no-longer-active page.


Licensing

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This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
  • to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
  • where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
  • and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
  • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

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