File:Nigel Forman MP, circa 1980.jpg

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Description	image of Nigel Forman used in his BBC 2017 obituary
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: BBC Immediate source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42401110
Date of publication	2017
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Nigel Forman
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Mr Forman is deceased
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	it is used to show the image of a person who is the topic of a biographical article
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	it is thumbnail size and has no commercial use in this format
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2017
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Nigel Forman//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nigel_Forman_MP,_circa_1980.jpgtrue

Licensing

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Nigel Forman":

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

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Non-free use rationale

Forman died in 2017 and it is now impossible to generate a free use image. The image used is thumbnail size and has no commercial value. It is considered that this use of the image is fair use and in some countries the image is free use.

	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:02, 9 July 2023		421 × 237 (67 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	12:11, 8 July 2023	No thumbnail	976 × 549 (60 KB)	Isabela84 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

File:Nigel Forman MP, circa 1980.jpg

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