Image:Bao Xishun1.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image
File history
File links

Size of this preview: 449 × 600 pixels
Full resolution‎ (450 × 601 pixels, file size: 26 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

[edit] Summary

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it
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 usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale should be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.

[edit] =Fair Use Rationale for the article Bao Xishun

The only reliable source of pictures of Bao Xishun are the Guinness World Records (a copyrighted source) or Chinese news reports. Due to his somewhat remote location, and desire to stay out of the public spotlight, finding free, non-news-related pictures of this man has proven exceptionally difficult.

This media was proposed for deletion as a replaceable non-free content. The result was to Keep the image, as no adequate free-licensed image exists or can be created to fulfill the limited role performed by this image at the time deletion was considered. However, this image may be replaceable by free images in other contexts, and in such cases the free image must take precedence. A discussion of this decision may exist on the image talk page.

Bai Xishun, the world's tallest naturally-growing human (2.36 m). He is married to Xia Shujian (1.68 m) since early 2007.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	03:52, 15 December 2006	450×601 (26 KB)	Walkeraj (Talk \| contribs)	({{Promophoto}} Picture of Bao Xishun at a Dalian hospital. Taken from http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2006-08/11/content_662093.htm Copyright (c) 2006 China Daily Fair Use Rational: The only reliable source of pictures of Bao Xishun are the Guinness Bo)