File:Uma Shivakumar.jpg
Source: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/actor-uma-shivakumar-passes-away/article4850583.ece
Copyright: The copyright of the image is reasonably assumed to be vested with The Hindu from whose website this image is taken.
It is argued that this pic is fair use for
- Uma Shivakumar because
- The picture is that of an individual regarded widely as a hugely popular figure in Kannada cinema;
- The photo is only being used for informational purposes;
- Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article.
- There are no copyright free pics available, and the person depicted is dead so a new one cannot be created.
Licensing
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- To illustrate the subject 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 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.
- 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.
- Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale.
- This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use.
|image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.User:Kannada123 asserts that the limited use of this copyrighted image in Wikipedia articles directly pertaining to it is a fair use of the image, for the following reasons:
- It depicts a deceased person. Therefore no new images of the subject can be created.
- No free-license alternatives are available that convey the same information.
- The image is no larger, and of no higher quality, than required for its use in articles.
- It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
- Its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder.
- Its use on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.
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