Nik_Russian.jpg (299 × 185 pixels, file size: 15 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary edit
| Description |
A screenshot from The Great Reality TV Swindle, a documentary produced by Christmas TV for Channel 4 about a 2002 confidence trick perpetrated by a man known as Nik Russian. |
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| Source |
The screenshot from the documentary was captured by the British magazine Closer for a 2013 article about the con, and was uploaded to Wikipedia by User:A Thousand Doors. |
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| Portion used |
A single screenshot of a documentary that lasted approximately 45 minutes represents a very small portion of the original source. Presented in a scaled-down form of the original 4:3 aspect ratio. The entire frame is used so as not to misrepresent the subject. |
| Low resolution? |
Yes, such that pirating would be impossible. |
| Purpose of use |
Russian was the key figure of both the con and the documentary, and much of the media reaction centred on him. Many commentators speculated that Russian's physical appearance may have helped him to perpetrate the con – critics described him as "beautiful" and "Byronic", and noted that he "appeared every inch the cocky TV producer he aspired to be". This is discussed in the article, therefore it is necessary for the reader to see what Russian looked like to fully understand these assertions. |
| Replaceable? |
Following the con, Russian went into hiding. Apart from a brief interview in Richmond-upon-Thames where he apologised, he has not been in the public eye since 2002. According to Closer's 2013 article, "nothing has been heard of him since". He may well have changed him name. Searches on free image repositories have proven to be fruitless. As someone who is not a public figure and keeps a low profile, it cannot be reasonably assumed that a free alternative can be found and used in the article. |
| Other information |
Use of this image will not limit the copyright holder's rights to distribute the original. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Great Reality TV Swindle//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nik_Russian.jpgtrue | |
Licensing edit
 | This image is a screenshot of a copyrighted television program. As such, the copyright for it is most likely owned by the company or corporation that produced it. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots
qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. For more information, see Wikipedia:Non-free content. |
File history
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| current | 16:26, 8 August 2015 | | 299 × 185 (15 KB) | A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) | Reduced version supplied. |
| 13:30, 8 August 2015 | No thumbnail | 586 × 363 (35 KB) | A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) | {{Non-free use rationale |Article = Great Reality TV Swindle |Description = A screenshot from ''The Great Reality TV Swindle'', a documentary produced by Christmas TV for Channel 4 about a 2002 confidence trick perpetrated by... |
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