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[edit] Rationale of fair use of this image in the article for Nelson Mandela

The image "Young Mandela.jpg" is being linked here, though the original picture may be copyrighted. I Ezeu feel it is covered by fair use because:

The photograph depicts Nelson Mandela as a young man.
Nelson Mandela is an important person in the history of Africa in general, and South Africa in particular.
This photograph is provided by the African National Congress as a promotional picture of Nelson Mandela[1] without explicit restrictions against its usage, fair use or otherwise.
This photograph is important in the article Nelson Mandela to depict Nelson Mandela as a young man as most images of Mandela depict him in his elderly years.
There are no known free or public domain photographs of Nelson Mandela as a young man.
This image does not limit the rights of the copyright owners, if such do exist, to distribute the original image in any way.
The photograph is used for non-profit and informational purposes only.

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.

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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.