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[edit] Bad tag

This isn't a magazine cover. At all. I don't know what other, more proper tag could be used, as Reuters has removed it and a whole bunch of others from their database. The legal implications of that I don't care to guess.--Planetary 20:24, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Fair use says

If photos are themselves newsworthy (e.g. a photo of equivalent notoriety as the Muhammad cartoons newspaper scan), low resolution versions of the photos may be fair use in related articles.

This is a low resolution version of an image (but not a photo!) that is newsworthy in itself.

(In fact, some of the language from Template:HistoricPhoto applies, for whatever that's worth:

This image is a faithful digitalizationlow-resolution version of a unique historic doctored photograph, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the photographer who took the photograph or the agency employing the photographer. It is believed that the use of this photograph

• to illustrate the event in question where:
• The photograph depicts image is a non-reproducible historic event, 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,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.)

How about switching to (say) {{Fair use in}} Adnan Hajj, Adnan Hajj photographs controversy, Reuters etc? CWC(talk) 11:51, 27 August 2006 (UTC)