Template:Non-free historic image

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 fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Other use 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).

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed fair 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 fair use rationales, see here.
Template:Non-free use rationale 2 may be helpful for stating the rationale.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

If this tag does not accurately describe this image, please replace it with an appropriate one.

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Usage

The template takes a single (unnamed) parameter, being the name of the article in which the file is used:

If the image has an appropriate rationale then a reviewer will append

|image has rationale=yes

This will stop the message in the lower part of the template from being displayed.

The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Non-free historic image/doc. (edit | history)
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