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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Tina Kennard
Description	A promotional image of the character "Tina" from the L-Word
Source	Distributed by Showtime directly as part of their promotional efforts [1]
Article	Tina Kennard
Portion used	Tight crop of character
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	In Tina Kennard - to serve for purposes of identification of a fictional character
Replaceable?	Tina is a fictional character all images will be promotional and copyright of showtime.
Other information	Showtime has allowed redistribution of this and similar promotional images on throughout the web on dozens of sites: utube, afterellen, l-word.com...