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Description	Unknown; probably Burffalo, NY Photo of William B. Rowe, an American artist who died in 1955
Source	Photo was published in an obituary column of the Buffalo Evening News; the photo did not have an attribution
Date	24 August 1955
Author	Unknown; while photo was published in newspaper obituary, it is unlikely that the newspaper actually took the photo since the subjects death was unexpected
Permission (Reusing this image)	Since the photo was published in 1955 without attibution or notice of copyright it may be in Public Domain; if not, the Fair Use rule applies since the photograph is necessary to identify the subject of an article and that subject is dead leaving no alternative to the use of an existing photo.

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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 "William B. Rowe" :

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.

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Non-free / fair use media rationale for William B. Rowe
Description	Photo of William B. Rowe, an American artist who died in 1955
Source	Buffalo Evening News 24 August 1955; the photo did not have an attribution or notice of copyright
Article	William B. Rowe
Portion used	entire
Low resolution?	yes; this is digital photograph of a photo copy of the original newspaper page; the quality is therefore quite poor
Purpose of use	To visually identify the subject of a wikipedia article
Replaceable?	no; subject died in 1955
Other information	Author - Unknown; photo may be Public Domain since the photo was published in 1955 without attibution or notice of copyright; if not, the Fair Use rule applies since the photograph is necessary to identify the subject of an article and that subject is dead so leaving no alternative to the use of an existing photos.

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current	02:51, 5 February 2008	240×320 (9 KB)	Orygun (Talk \| contribs)	({{Information \|Description= Photo of William B. Rowe, an American artist who died in 1955 \|Source=Photo was published in an obituary column of the Buffalo Evening News; the photo was did not have an attribution \|Date= 24 August 1955 \|Location=Unknown; pro)