File:Johnbutton.jpg

Image source page, originally from and copyright held by the Parliament of Australia Library.

Australian fair dealing law (similar in many respects to fair use in the United States) permits the use of images for:

• Research and Study
• Review and Criticism
• 'Reporting the News'
• Legal advice

Use of this image on Wikipedia qualifies in the preceding two of these categories. In addition, please view the fair use rationale below.

Fair Use in John Button edit

The image here is claimed to be fair use as it is:

1. A portrait of one of Australia's well-known historical deceased politicians, as such there is no potential for a free alternative;
2. The person is deceased and there are no copyleft alternatives of such a photo;
3. The image used is of a ceremonial and not a commercial value;
4. The article is greatly improved by the prominence of this photo;
5. Which is hosted and displayed on the not-for-profit Wikipedia Encyclopedia for educational purposes.

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 "John Button (Australian politician)": 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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johnbutton.jpg true

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.