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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 article " Leslie Irvin (serial killer)" :

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.

[edit] Fair use in Leslie Irvin (serial killer)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It's a low resolution copy of a media image.
It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the image in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the image.
The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
The image on the cover is significant because it is of a famous person.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:22, 27 October 2007	300×271 (15 KB)	HumanFrailty (Talk \| contribs)	(== Fair use in Leslie Irwin== Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: # It's a low resolution copy of a media image. # It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the image in any way)