File:CarmenColónRochesterNewYorkBillboard1971andDisplayed1972AppealsSkewed.jpg

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CarmenColónRochesterNewYorkBillboard1971andDisplayed1972AppealsSkewed.jpg(235 × 178 pixels, file size: 47 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description This image displays a billbard image relating to police public appeals relating to the murder of Carmen Colón. Usage of file is intended to illustrate the section relating to the public aspect of her attempts to flee her abductor in plain public sight in addition to the ongoing unsolved aspect pertaining to her murder and the subsequent series of child murders which ensued.
Author or
copyright owner
John Shearer
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original source: here
Date of publication February 24, 1972
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Alphabet murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

The purpose of usage is to both encourage encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article and, equally, to illustrate victim profile of the offender(s) of these crimes

Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
n.a.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * The image is cropped from the original. This image is just 235x170px in size as opposed to original, which is 787x1200px in size
  • Original source image itself is not skewed as opposed to this image, which has also been tainted in hue compared to the source image
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
n.a.
Other information


  • The (credited by name) author of the image had released this photographic work into the public domain and for free press circulation in 1972, following the murder of Carmen Colón, in active efforts to generate public interest and "tips" in (continuing to this day) efforts to identify the offender
  • (NFCC1): This image has no free equivalent; meeting Wikipedia's guidelines
  • (NFCC4): This image (and very similar derivatives by the same photographer) has already been widely distributed in the media via various methods and, in doing so, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality and in a higher resolution
  • (NFCC4): This image was on free, willing public display until its being removed c. late 1972. Was photographed by one John Shearer (in a greater, un-cropped, higher resolution and untinted form as opposed to the skewed image in usage here)
  • (Per NFCC 6&7): Intended for usage solely within this article. Specific, verifiable links and data given name authors and source
  • Believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language version of Wikipedia to illustrate a subsection of the article relating to the Alphabet Murders falls under the "Non-profit educational"; the "nature of the copyrighted work"; and, also, the "amount and substantiality of the portion used" clauses of the Fair Use principle, all of which are currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alphabet murders//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CarmenCol%C3%B3nRochesterNewYorkBillboard1971andDisplayed1972AppealsSkewed.jpgtrue

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