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[edit] Fair use rationale

The image is a low-resolution copy of a publicity photograph;
The image is being used for informational purposes about Sam Strachan, a main character from the television programme Holby City;
No more free alternative exists;
The use of the image in these articles will have no effect on the BBC's commercial use of the image in question.

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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:24, 28 August 2007	250×250 (12 KB)	Frickative (Talk \| contribs)	(==Fair use rationale== This image is being linked here; though the picture is copyright © to the BBC, I feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use law because: #The image is a low-resolution copy of a publicity photograph; #The image is being used for infor)
	18:52, 19 April 2007	640×352 (24 KB)	Frickative (Talk \| contribs)	( This image is a low resolution screenshot taken from the BBC television programme Holby City. Fair use rationale for use: the image illustrates the subject of the article the source text is discussed throughout the article *no free alternative av)