File:Fred "Sonic" Smith.png

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Fred "Sonic" Smith
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: https://secondhandsongs.com/artist/5898
Date of publication	unknown
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Fred "Sonic" Smith
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	I searched for a free image of him, or of his former band MC5 that depicted him, but could not find one. This is the earliest, small size image I could find which fits within the fair-use guidelines.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	For use on the WP biographic article of the person depicted who is no longer alive.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	I'm confident that the use of this file will not harm the owner, as it is a small sized, black and white, low resolution image with no commercial value.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1994
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Fred "Sonic" Smith//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fred_%22Sonic%22_Smith.pngtrue

Licensing edit

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Fred "Sonic" Smith":

to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
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 uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:03, 27 November 2022		199 × 199 (37 KB)	Netherzone (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Fred "Sonic" Smith