File:HollyWellsJessicaChapmanSummer2002SohamCambridgeshire2.jpg

HollyWellsJessicaChapmanSummer2002SohamCambridgeshire2.jpg(328 × 196 pixels, file size: 40 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description This image depicts the subjects whom the article in question is devoted to. The sole file usage intention is to illustrate the infobox of this Wikipedia article pertaining to the loss of the individuals in question.
Author or
copyright owner
Kevin Wells
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original publication: August 2002

Immediate source: The Telegraph newspaper, here. Direct link here

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Soham murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
* Photograph was taken in summer of 2002
  • Both individuals have been deceased since August 2002
  • No free equivalent image of subjects in question exist
  • The low quality, skewed, cropped reproduction photograph here can be reasonably described as "irreplaceable", and meets the Non-free content criteria.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * To quote the NFCC#3 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 online source from where the image has been taken
  • Image is 349 x 209px in size; original image - easily accessible to anyone who browses the web, is 2310 x 1444px in size.
  • Image has been cropped, slightly skewed and slightly tinted from the original
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
* Image had been widely distributed upon the internet and in printed format since 2002, and in a much better resolution quality
  • Minimal extent of use: infobox pertaining to the individuals in question
  • Original author named and credited
Other information The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 4 August 2002


  • Image has no free equivalent; therefore meeting the Wikipedia guideline (NFCC1)
  • The intended content of this reduced size, cropped, skewed. lower quality, 349 x 209 image is NOT intended for any use in a manner detrimental in any way whatsoever to the original copyrighted media (NFCC2)
  • This image has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods, since 2002, and in doing so, has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution & in an un-cropped form (NFCC4)
  • The precise name given to the file - plus the nature of the content - make ambiguous usage of this image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)
  • Having specifically named and credited the website from where I captured this image, plus having specifically named the original author of the image in question, as well as meeting the specific criteria outlined above, this image does meet the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (NFCC10)
  • Strongly believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate the infobox of the article relating to the deaths of the persons depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Soham murders//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HollyWellsJessicaChapmanSummer2002SohamCambridgeshire2.jpgtrue

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