Rfk_assassination.jpg (280 × 350 pixels, file size: 76 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
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| Description |
This is an image of RFK immediately after he was shot on June 5, 1968 |
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| Source |
Photo taken by Boris Yaro for the Los Angeles Times. [1] Photo republished by Gatehouse Media. [2] |
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| Portion used |
No, this is the whole image. |
| Low resolution? |
Yes, this is a lower resolution version than the original picture |
| Purpose of use |
This is an image of RFK immediately after he was shot and is being used in an article about the assassination of RFK. The image illuminates the event in a way words cannot and significantly increases reader understanding of the topic. |
| Replaceable? |
No. There are no freely licensed alternative images of the night of the assassination. Nor could we make a free image now, as the picture captures a historical moment that is impossible to replicate. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rfk_assassination.jpgtrue | |
License
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 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free 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. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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| current | 21:16, 16 March 2015 | | 280 × 350 (76 KB) | The Obento Musubi (talk | contribs) | Uploading cleaned up image from the LA Times. Scaled down slightly to comply with fair use. (Maximum of 100,000 square pixels.) |
| 18:32, 3 March 2012 | No thumbnail | 347 × 398 (75 KB) | Soerfm (talk | contribs) | Brightness |
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