File:Stiv Bators.jpg

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Promo photo of the late Stiv Bators, lead singer of the Dead Boys

Author or
copyright owner

Unknown

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

Original publication: Unknown

Immediate source: http://www.nndb.com/people/303/000129913/

Date of publication

Unknown

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

Stiv Bators

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

This singer has been dead for over 22 years, so no free image is possible.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

This photo will be used in the article on the subject, used once, and used in that article only.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

This is a very low res copy of a promotional photograph. Its use on Wikipedia will not impact the original authors ability to use the photo commercially.

Other information

The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1990

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit.

The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

the person(s), product, event, or subject in question;
where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it;
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation;

qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

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Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.

Fair use

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Stiv Bators//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stiv_Bators.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 "Stiv Bators":

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.
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File:Stiv Bators.jpg

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