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[edit] Fair Use Disputed

FareUse states that this photo violates the Fair Use criteria which states "Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information". The picture of the subject at http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm is a free, public domain equivalent. Therefore using this copyrighted image within Wikipedia/Wikimediata without permission of the photographer (as acknowledged in the rest of this discussion page) violates "Fair Use".

[I removed the template, but left the text of this message. The template was apparently triggering some bot to remove the images. FareUse has not responded to my contention that no public domain photo exists. Ydorb 22:51, 6 November 2006 (UTC)]

It is not at all clear the FBI photo is from a free public domain photo. Whomever the photographer is, it probably is not a US government employee. Ydorb 18:34, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

I second that, it's probably not taken by a federal employee. --Interiot 17:36, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I third, it's plainly obvious that Bin Laden did not pose for a U.S. government photographer. Nor has he ever. Andrew Levine 05:35, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Do you think that we could email someone to ask him to release a photograph of himself into the public domain? Hbdragon88 03:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

You have to consider that most of the extant photos of Bin Laden were either taken by large news agencies or people in his own organization. So there's almost no chance that anyone we can approach will release one. Anyway, the ability to ask for a photo to be released to PD or a free license is patently unrelated to FUC#1, because that only requires that a new image can be created, and excludes asking permission for existing ones. Andrew Levine 04:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Well, I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek - this man is a fugitive, it would be kind of hard to ask him to release an image. Hbdragon88 07:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

• As per FBI privacy policy, all information on their site is considered public information, and thus the picture of the subject at http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm is indeed a free, public domain equivalent. -- drybittermelon (talk．contribs) 18:02, 1 December 2006 (UTC)