File:UN photo of Augusto Espinosa Valderrama.jpg

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Description	Official UN Portrait of Augusto Espinosa Valderrama, Colombian Permanent Representative to the United Nations.
Source	United Nations Photo # 175362
Date	14 September 1970
Author	UN Photo by Yutaka Nagata
Permission (Reusing this file)	This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Augusto Espinosa Valderrama": 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:UN_photo_of_Augusto_Espinosa_Valderrama.jpg true To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale. This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true Usage of copyrighted UN photographs UN Photo Usage Guidelines state that: "prior written permission is required to reproduce UN photos in print or electronic format [...] Written permission is, however, not required for reproduction of photo material as allowed by statutory exemptions [...] or Fair Use. It applies solely to scholarly, academic, non-profit, or journalistic use of properly credited UN photos.

Fair use for Augusto Espinosa Valderrama[edit]

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a politically significant photo of Colombian Permanent Representative to the UN.
2. It is of much lower resolution than the original, and copies made from it will be of very inferior quality.
3. The photo is only being used for informational purposes in a scholarly, non-profit environment.
4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the subject of the photo are the object of discussion in the article.