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Official portrait of Benjamin Henry Sheares (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981), the second President of the Republic of Singapore. From http://www.istana.gov.sg/history.html.

[edit] Copyright owner

It is believed that the owner of the copyright in the photograph is the Government of Singapore.

[edit] Licensing and fair use justification

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the articles "Benjamin Henry Sheares", "President of Singapore" and "Eurasians in Singapore": To illustrate the subject 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 ([1]), 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:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights. To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

It is submitted that use of the photograph in the articles "Benjamin Henry Sheares", "Eurasians in Singapore" and "President of Singapore" is fair under U.S. copyright law, and the laws of other jurisdictions where applicable, for the following reasons:

• The image is not replaceable, as its subject passed away in 1981. For that reason, an image which does not rely on the doctrine of fair use would be very difficult to obtain.
• The image is an official government portrait, and so there may be an implied licence for its use in depicting the subject of the photograph, Benjamin Henry Sheares.
• The image is smaller and of a much lower resolution than the original photograph.
• No loss of income for the copyright owner can reasonably be expected from the use of the image.

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