File:Actor Ralph Bates.jpg

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Photo of actor Ralph Bates by Edward Wing, 1970s, for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Bates
Author or copyright owner	Photographer: Howard Wing © reserved; collection National Portrait Gallery, London
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Unknown Immediate source: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw241695/Ralph-Bates?LinkID=mp143430&role=sit&rNo=0
Date of publication	1970s
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Ralph Bates
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)	No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the individual in question. Free images are not available as the actor worked in the copyrighted media of theatre, film & TV. A replaceable free photo for this individual is impossible as he is deceased.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	a / The image is of sufficient res. for the article and for identification purposes, but lower res. than the original image. b / It is the sole intended image for the article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The copy is of sufficient res. for commentary and I.D., but lower res. than the original. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as pirate versions or other uses that would compete with any commercial purpose of the original photo.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 27 March 1991 Image is important to illustrate/provide visual info. for the article. Use of the image in no way violates the copyright holder's legal rights.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ralph Bates//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Actor_Ralph_Bates.jpgtrue

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 "Ralph Bates":

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

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.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:38, 3 December 2018		274 × 363 (45 KB)	Beryl reid fan (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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