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Description	Anthony Geary (as Luke Spencer) in the tuxedo and Genie Francis (as Laura Spencer) in the wedding gown in the publicity still for General Hospital.
Source	Downloaded from eBay item. Proprietor of this image is ABC Television. Back of this image
Article	Luke and Laura
Portion used	No cropping was made; this version is a whole portion.
Low resolution?	The size of this image was reduced, and the resolution and format, JPEG, of this image are low-quality and inferior to the original photo print of this image that was displayed on eBay. Therefore, fair use laws shall be complied. No intent to infringe rights of this image and to affect the original role of this image was made.
Purpose of use	This article discusses fictional characters as the fictional couple, Luke Spencer and Laura Spencer (née Webber), of General Hospital, including their roles as public figures. The uploader of this image, George Ho, acknowledges actual personalities, Anthony Geary and Laura Spencer, and their contributions to General Hospital as individual fictional characters and fictional couple, Luke Spencer and Laura Spencer. This image is included in this article to provide a critical commentary of and a critical commentary of a wedding of, to visualize an early appearance of, to identify, and to historicize fictional characters, Luke Spencer and Laura Spencer, portrayed by Anthony Geary and Genie Francis, as a fictional couple. This image presents a cultural and historical impact of Luke and Laura's relationship, wedding, and marriage on popular culture and on the real world. This uploader, George Ho, acknowledges ABC's reserved rights of this image and Anthony Geary's and Genie Francis's rights of publicity. If one of pictured personalities is proven to be living and neither retired nor deceased, under guidelines of WP:Non-free content#Unacceptable use, please do not add this image to a biography of the living person.
Replaceable?	This photo was published in 1981 without copyright notice, which was required for works published before the effective date of Berne Convention Implementation Act, March 1, 1989, and with this notice: "For editorial use only. All rights reserved." A copyright notice required three elements:[1] ©, "Copyright", or "Copr." Year of copyright Copyright proprietor of work If a notice either is omitted or omits at least one of three above elements, nevertheless, under Copyright Act of 1976, copyright protection may apply to this image if this image follows one of these: Registration prior to or within five years after first publication of this photograph, and reasonable efforts were made to correct the discovered omission; or No more than a "relatively small number of copies" may have omitted a required notice; or Omission of notice has violated a written agreement that a prescribed notice must be beared. Unless copyright status of this image is determined, this image shall be treated as copyrighted and non-free. Copyrighted, non-free images are not distributed as free or public domain copies and are considered irreplaceable. General Hospital is a copyrighted television series; Luke Spencer and Laura Spencer are copyrighted fictional characters of this television series. Images of actual persons depicted may exist with either "some rights reserved," expired copyrights, or failures to comply with copyright laws; however, these may not be substitutes for this image because they may not accurately describe an identification or a visual commentary of fictional characters as subjects of this article. This image is greyscale; color versions of this photo may exist. If you personally have a color version of this photo, please contact me first before you upload a color version of this image.
Other information	This photo was released on October 27, 1981, and used primarily as a promotion for two episodes of the wedding storyline of Luke and Laura in General Hospital that aired on Monday, November 16, 1981, and Tuesday, November 17, 1981. The back photo contains this crucial information and information mentioned in "Replaceable?" field and could not be uploaded because it does not meet standards of non-free content. This image was uploaded without proof of consent from American Broadcasting Company, crew of General Hospital, Anthony Geary, Genie Francis, and legal representatives of and relatives of pictured personalities. Fair use is provided for this image to acknowledge that no intentions to infringe such rights and to limit an original marketability role of this image were made. If you are either one of them, and if you want this image removed from Wikipedia, please contact me (George Ho) or a Wikipedia administrator.
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