This particular image depicts Shirley Lynette Ledford, the final victim of Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris. File is intended to illustrate the trial section of the article relating to the presentation of the audio tape her murderers made of her.
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Photograph was high school portrait, taken in 1979
The purpose of usage is to both encourage encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article and equally to illustrate victim profile of Lawrence S. Bittaker and Roy L. Norris: young, Caucasian female. Also, to depict individual for whose murder the most damning piece of evidence was presented at subsequent trial of one of her murderers, as the defense counsel stated: condemning him to receive death sentence.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)
* Subject has been deceased since 1979
The image is of a low resolution quality, 141 X 193 in size
The low quality, tinted color, cropped reproduction photograph here can be reasonably described as "irreplaceable," and meets Non-free content criteria. In particular, given the fact the image has been distributed outside of Wikipedia, via the Internet and in books in a much greater quality than here - that no free alternative exists & that the image is significant given the content of the article.
The image is of a historical importance to the trial section of article regarding Bittaker and Norris.
* NFCC3 guidelines: "An entire work is not used if a portion will suffice." The portion of the image used here is cropped from that used upon the source from where the image is taken. In addition, the source itself uses a low quality reproduction of the actual original image (NFCC3).
The image is of a tinted hue as opposed to original.
Intended solely for usage upon one sub-section of article
* Image is cropped, is not intended for use in any manner which can be described as detrimental to the original copyrighted media (NFCC2)
Image is of a low resolution quality, 141 x 193, in a color hue of lower quality to original, all therefore making commercial use of reproduced copies of the image highly unlikely
Unique name given to file, also making incorrect usage/ambiguous usage unlikely.
Image is of a smaller size than source from where it has been taken: dimensions are only 141 x 193
Source of the image in question has been named, as has date and source of original publication and the likely original author of the image itself from as well as meeting the criteria outlined, this image meets the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (NFCC10).
Believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate a section of the article discussing aspects relating to the person depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
In addition to the non-free use assertion shown on this page, the copyright holder has granted permission for this image to be used in Wikipedia. This permission does not extend to third parties.
This tag must be used in conjunction with another non-free use image tag. If no other tag is present on this page, and this image was uploaded after May 19, 2005, please speedily delete this image or tag it with {{db-f3}}.
To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each use, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
Image has no free equivalent; therefore meeting the Wikipedia guideline (NFCC1)
The intended content of this reduced size, cropped, lower quality, 141 X 193 image is NOT intended for any use in a manner detrimental in any way whatsoever to the original copyrighted media (NFCC2)
Minimal extent of usage intended. 141 x 193. Image is intended for use in one sub section only upon the article regarding Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris(NFCC3)
Image has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods, since 1980, and in doing so, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution & in an un-cropped form (NFCC4).
This image is relevant to sub-section in question & subject is also explained later in article at trials. Would increase readers' understanding of the topic and victim profile. The image will be used in this article (for which sole usage is intended) only. (NFCC5) (NFCC6) (NFCC8) (NFCC7)
Precise name I have given to the file - plus the nature of the content - make ambiguous usage of the image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)
Having specifically named and credited the website from where I captured this image, plus my having specifically named the original author of the image in question, as well as meeting the specific criteria outlined, this image does meet the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (NFCC10).
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This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the imageor the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
Please remember that the non-free content criteriarequire that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy).
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