File:Shag Thomas.jpg

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Non-free use rationale on Shag Thomas[edit]

1. No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the article's subject - no free images have been allocated for this person.
2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source above.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section title.
8. No free images have been allocated for this person
9. The image is needed to identify the person for educational purposes in an encyclopedia entry and significantly improves the quality of the article.
10. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.
11. A replaceable free image for this person is impossible as he/she is deceased.

Licensing[edit]

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Shag Thomas": 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. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shag_Thomas.jpg true