File:TheAuburnPlainsman.jpg

Summary edit

This image depicts the front page of The Auburn Plainsman, dated Thursday, November 13, 2008. The image can be found on the newspapers's official website, ThePlainsman.com, specifically as a PDF here.

Fair use rationale: edit

1. The image will be used for identification and/or critical commentary in The Auburn Plainsman's article to aid the reader's understanding of the newspaper's format and publication appearance.
2. The use is purely for non-profit reasons, and to educate users on the newspaper in question.
3. It is a low resolution and/or poor quality version of the newspaper's front page, making it unusable for commercial reproduction.
4. Its use does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell or market the newspaper or related products in any way.
5. The newspaper's front page is freely available online, and is provided by the newspaper itself. The image's appearance on Wikipedia does not make it more freely available.
6. As an accurate depiction of the official front page layout of a newspaper, there is no known free alternative available. If a free alternative is found, this image should be nominated for deletion as obsolete.

License edit

This image is a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the newspaper or the individual contributors who worked on the articles or images depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of newspaper pages to illustrate either the publication of the article or issue in question, with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TheAuburnPlainsman.jpg true

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