File:Phil Pepe.jpeg

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Description	Image of Phil Pepe
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Article	Phil Pepe
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Low resolution?	Low
Purpose of use	Primary means of identifying a sports writer and author
Replaceable?	The subject is deceased and no free alternative is known to exist
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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.
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This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

To illustrate the subject in question
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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.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:03, 28 December 2016		278 × 358 (11 KB)	Theo's Little Bot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	17:29, 25 December 2015	No thumbnail	1,320 × 1,701 (134 KB)	MusiCitizen (talk \| contribs)

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