File:Commando Snowy.jpg

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	A photo of 'Commando' Snowy, the Sri Lanka Army Commando Regiment's famous tracking dog
Author or copyright owner	Sri Lanka Army
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Unknown Immediate source: http://www.army.lk/html/images/image/snowy_1.jpg
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Snowy (military dog)
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)	Subject is a military service animal, and spent its entire life in this position. Free images are unlikely to exist of such an animal, with all extant images being copyrighted by the Army. No more free images can be made, since subject is deceased
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Single use only- in the infobox of the article discussing the service animal depicted in the photo
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The Sri Lanka Army is not a commercial venture, and an image of a deceased service animal is unlikely to have "commercial value" to any party involved
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2011 Only military service animal to be awarded a military honour by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces to date (April 2018)- image is thus a significant addition to a notable topic/article
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Snowy (military dog)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Commando_Snowy.jpgtrue

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This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Snowy (Military dog)":

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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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:01, 23 April 2018		264 × 376 (31 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	19:21, 22 April 2018	No thumbnail	300 × 428 (219 KB)	Jesuschristonacamel (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Snowy (military dog)

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Camera manufacturer	SONY
Camera model	DSC-H2
Width	444 px
Height	643 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
File change date and time	)
Y and C positioning	Co-sited