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Image from promotional Sony website, intended for fair use to specifically demonstrate the historically important JumboTron at the 1985 World Science Expo. It is contended to be fair use in JumboTron. It was determined that this image met fair-use standards to illustrate this specific historical JumboTron, and yet the image was then subsequently deleted by a user who decided to forgo revisiting that decision in favor of his/her own judgment. I kindly ask that users instead speak to me and other users about it, as this issue can be (and was once already) resolved appropriately.

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It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

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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.

To the uploader: This tag should only be used for images of a person, product, or event that is known to have come from a press kit or similar source, for the purpose of reuse by the media. Please add a detailed fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the image and copyright information. Additionally, if the copyright holder has granted permission, please provide further details as to the terms.

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current	07:00, 2 May 2007	350×230 (61 KB)	Cheeser1 (Talk \| contribs)	(Image from [http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/1-36/h2.html promotional Sony website], intended for fair use to specifically demonstrate the historically important JumboTron at the 1985 World Science Expo. It is contended to be fair use in JumboTron. It [[Use)