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[edit] Valid fair use reasoning?

Copyright examination has been requested for the material described below. If you are confident that the material is free of copyright concerns based on Fair Use or other considerations, feel free to add it directly to the article. If you do so, or alternatively if you believe it cannot legally be added, please post your analysis below.

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This photograph is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "[[{{{1}}}]]"

• to illustrate the aircraft 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: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.

A common additional piece of reasoning is as follows: the aircraft was never put into production/does not exist today, therefore the creation of an equivalent free image is impossible.

Do these reasons amount to a valid justification for fairuse? Ingoolemo ^talk 00:14, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps. When an aircraft does not exist, very limited fair use may be valid.--Jusjih 11:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes on the need for faid use. It's plainly impossible to replace fair use and it's impossible to adequately portray the appearance of an aircraft without a photograph. Whether the specific image is fair use woudl depend on the image and context but it seems very likely, since images of aircraft are usually marketing materials and are usually not used for marketing in Wikipedia articles. Jamesday 22:21, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

But is it necessary "to adequately portray the appearance of an aircraft"? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 06:28, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

You would also still need to provide fair use rationale. The fair use tag is not adequate in establishing by it is fair use; you must always provide fair use rationale when uploading a fair use image.↔NMajdan•talk 14:35, 2 March 2007 (UTC)