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Students Evacuating Columbine High School. Daniel Rohrbough's body is visible at the base of the stairs.

This image was originally copyrighted to this (KUSA-TV) local Denver Television Station; captured by its News Chopper on April 20th, 1999.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Columbine High School massacre":

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 ([1]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

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: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed fair use rationale.

[edit] Rationale of "fair use" for Columbine High School massacre:

I, SmthManly, believe this image falls under fair use, According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 (The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. [3] because:

It is a low resolution screenshot captured from a news broadcast/news report.
The image is of significantly lower resolution so as not to allow any high-quality copies.
The image is used for informational purposes only.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article and how the event depicted was very historically significant to the general public. In this case it shows students being evacuated from the school.

[edit] Rationale of "fair use" for School massacre:

It is a low resolution screenshot captured from a news broadcast/news report.
The image is of significantly lower resolution so as not to allow any high-quality copies.
The image is used for informational purposes only.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article and how the event depicted was very historically significant to the general public. In this case it shows students being evacuated from the school during one of the most famous school massacres.

[edit] Rationale of "fair use" for April 20 and 1999:

It is a low resolution screenshot captured from a news broadcast/news report.
The image is of significantly lower resolution so as not to allow any high-quality copies.
The image is used for informational purposes only.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article and how the event depicted was very historically significant to the general public. In this case it shows students being evacuated from the school during one of the most famous school massacres which occured on April 20, and 1999, both articles use this image to showcase the significant event which occured on this date and year.

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