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By Sheila Conant, either for or not for the NOAA or USFWS. If it is for the US Government, then this image is in the Public Domain. If it isn't, then this is fair use, as per:

This is a cropped image. Also, there are no verifiably free images of Banza nihoa on the web.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Nihoa Conehead Katydid
Description	Banza nihoa
Source	Rauzon, M. (2001), Isles of Refuge: Wildlife and History of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 0-8248-2209-9.
Article	Nihoa Conehead Katydid
Portion used
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	Historical representation of a rare insect endemic only to the small, inaccessible island of Nihoa
Replaceable?	Photograph of a rare insect endemic to the small, inaccessible island of Nihoa.
Other information	Photo by Sheila Conant

[edit] Fair use in Nihoa Conehead Katydid

It is believed that this image qualifies under fair use because:

The image is being used in the article's infobox for identification purposes to show an extremely rare insect.
Due to the rarity of this insect, free alternatives are not likely to become available in the future.
It is a historically significant photo of an insect endemic to Hawaii.
It is of much lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it will be of very inferior quality.
The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the photo and its historical significance are the object of discussion in the article and is being used for informational and encyclopedic purposes only.

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Photo by Sheila Conant

[edit] Licensing

This image is a faithful digitalization of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who took the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this Image

to illustrate the event or historically notable person(s) in question where:
The image depicts a non-reproducible historic event or historically notable person(s), and no free alternative exists or can be created, and
The image is low resolution and of no larger and of no higher quality than is necessary for the illustration of an article, and the use of the image on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright,
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. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

If this does not accurately describe this image, please remove this tag and provide a different fair use rationale.

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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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:50, 4 September 2006	657×436 (30 KB)	SeanMD80 (Talk \| contribs)	(By Sheila Conant, either for or not for the NOAA or USFWS. If it is for the US Government, then this image is in the Public Domain. If it isn't, then this is fair use, as per: This is a cropped image. Also, there are no verifiably free images of Banza ni)