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[edit] Detailed fair use rationale
I am aware that the use of Crown Copyright images in article about British politicians has been the subject of controversy and that some have in the past been deleted. I therefore include this full fair use rationale:
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- The image is of lower resolution than the original photograph (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
- The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the photograph in any way.
- The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original photograph in any way.
The two principal reason why such photos have been held to fail WP:FAIR are that they are (1) readily replaceable with free images or (2) purely decorative. I shall deal with each concern in turn:
- Readily replaceable. No free or public domain images have been located for the subject of the article:
- a thorough search of US Federal departments has been undertaken and has revealed no public domain images of the subject; and
- photo-sharing websites such as Flickr have been searched and no images of the subject with a sufficiently free license (e.g. Creative Commons) are available.
- Purely decorative. Including pictures of notable national politicians does more than simply show what they look like:
- where the article in question is about a government or opposition elected official, an officially taken photograph adds significantly to the article on the person. It is important that those in such offices be recognisable; and
- given the ready availability of images of US government officials (as images taken by Federal government employees are invariably public domain) there is a risk of a US-centric bias. Articles on US officials will automatically be of a higher quality.
This Crown Copyright image can and should be used until such a time as a free image of the subject is located and uploaded.
This work is protected by British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Thus, this is a non-free license for the purpose of Wikipedia. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
- To illustrate the object in question
- Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
- On the English-language Wikipedia ([2]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([3]),
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:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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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