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Author: Yousuf Karsh [1]

[edit] Fair use rationale for Pope Pius XII

This is a very well known (possibly the most famous) image in the context of Pope Pius XII, showing him praying. It was taken by Yousuf Karsh and has been widely used, including on Matrimonial Blessings issued by the millions to Catholics marrying in accordance with Canon Law. It has been distributed in many forms and many fora and in many different contexts (see talk), including prayer cards and by non-catholics, without any copyright being enforced.

Jose Sanchez, in Pius XII and the Holocaust calls this image, along with Image:Piusxiiloggia.jpg, one of "the two ubiquitous photographs of Pius" which "seemed to capture the papacy at an eternal moment" (p. 1).

[edit] Licensing

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 "Pope Pius XII" :

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 ([2]),

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.

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current	21:45, 21 March 2003	250×345 (12 KB)	Jtdirl (Talk \| contribs)	(from www.truecatholic.org website explicitly states no copyright and allows free use of all its images)