File:John Cole BBC.jpg

Summary edit

Fair use rationale edit

1. No free equivalent. The subject is deceased, and there is only a very small probability that non-copyright photographs of the subject exist.
2. Respect for commercial opportunities. Low-resolution/fidelity is used, thus I believe there is no loss to the copyright holder from its use here.
3. This is to be the only non-free medium to be used in this article.
4. Content. Non-free content meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopaedic.
5. Media-specific policy. The material adheres to Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
6. Significance. The image contributes significantly to an article as the primary subject and is used only in the article namespace

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 Cole (journalist)": 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:John_Cole_BBC.jpg true