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Summary edit
| Description | Portrait by Walter Bird (photographer) of famous British physicist. To be used in Ben Lockspeiser. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Walter Bird |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: National Portrait Gallery, 1958 Immediate source: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw232465/Sir-Ben-Lockspeiser?search=sp&sText=lockspeiser&rNo=3 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Ben Lockspeiser |
| 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) |
Other images are available, but all are copyrighted. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | It will only be used to illustrate the Wikipedia article on Sir Ben Lockspeiser |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The NPG have no plans to commercialise this image |
| Other information | The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1990 |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ben Lockspeiser//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Ben_Lockspeiser,_FRS.jpgtrue | |
Licensing edit
Fair use for Ben Lockspeiser edit
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:
- It is a historically significant photo of a famous British engineer and scientific administrator
- It is of much lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
- The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
- Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it captures the character of the sitter so well.
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| current | 03:15, 14 November 2020 | | 267 × 373 (68 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 10:33, 8 November 2020 | No thumbnail | 715 × 1,000 (168 KB) | Jgdc47B (talk | contribs) | Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard |
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