File:Sam-Grainger.jpg

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Fair use rationales

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Sam Grainger
Description	Publicity photo of a non-living article subject
Source	https://web.archive.org/web/20070609141952/www.heroesonline.com/Photos/history/pages/sam-grainger.htm
Article	Sam Grainger
Portion used	Crop of a larger image; less than half of larger image
Low resolution?	Small size unsuitable to use for high quality reproduction
Purpose of use	Image is used for purposes of illustration in the above-named article, a subject of public interest.
Replaceable?	This publicity image distributed by a comic book convention does not appear to be protected by copyright. If protected by copyright, a free-use alternative does not exist.
Other information	The image is covered by fair use because: It is a low-resolution image unsuitable for high-end reproduction; The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit any copyright holder's rights or ability to sell or distribute the original work; The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the topic in the article. This original purpose of this image is identification of the person therein, a since-deceased public individual, therefore image not used in misleading manner.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Sam Grainger//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sam-Grainger.jpgtrue

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Publicity still: Sam Grainger prior to 1990 death. This is a crop of a promotional photograph of the late comic book artist, from an archived, no-longer-active page.

Licensing

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 Copyright law of the United States. 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.

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current	00:31, 8 November 2010		300 × 301 (15 KB)	Tenebrae (talk \| contribs)	== Fair use rationales == {{Non-free fair use rationale \|Article = Sam Grainger \|Description = Publicity photo of a non-living article subject \|Source = http://web.archive.org/web/20070609141952/www.heroesonline.com/Photos/histo

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