File:Maxine Carr Soham MurdersA.jpg

Maxine_Carr_Soham_MurdersA.jpg(225 × 227 pixels, file size: 38 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description This image depicts a booking photograph of Maxine Carr; one of the two subjects whom the article in question is devoted to the crimes and subsequent attempts at deception of.
Author or
copyright owner
Cambridgeshire Police
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original publication: 20 August 2002

Immediate source: Wales Online. Direct link '"here"

Date of publication 20 August 2002
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Soham murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) Visual identification of one of the individuals whom the article is devoted to the crimes committed by.
Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
No freely released image of the individual in question exists.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * The intended content of this reduced size, cropped, skewed. lower quality, 225 x 227px image is NOT intended for any use in a manner detrimental in any way whatsoever to the original copyrighted media
  • The images is of a tinted hue. Also cropped and skewed, making it of a lower quality than that from which it has been copied. Also making any commercial use of this image unlikely
  • Intended for usage in the individual's "infobox criminal" template only.
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
* The image has been widely distributed upon the internet and in printed format since 2002, and in a much better resolution quality.
  • Image is very easy to find both online and in printed format
  • Minimal extent of use: infobox pertaining to the individual in question within the article

Original police force who took the image has been named and credited Unique name of image makes and ambiguous usage unlikely

Other information


  • This image has no free equivalent; therefore meeting the Wikipedia guideline (NFCC1)
  • As explained elsewhere in the rationale summary, the intended content of this reduced size, cropped, lower colour quality, and skewed image, is not intended for use in a manner detrimental in any way 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, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality, un-cropped, in a better color tone, in a greater size than the image used here.
  • 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, as 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:Maxine_Carr_Soham_MurdersA.jpgtrue

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