File:AlSherman1940s.jpg

Fair use rationale edit

It is contended that the use of this image in the article on Al Sherman qualifies as fair use for the following reasons.

1. This individual is dead and due to short length of time since death it is unlikely that any free alternatives exist in the public domain.
2. This image is of fairly low resolution
3. This image is used for educational purposes in the article on Al Sherman
4. This image is used to identify the subject of the article on Al Sherman and the identification that this image provides could not be comparably completed with prose alone.
5. Identification of the subject of this article could not comparably be completed via prose alone.
6. This image should not detract from any resale value this image may have

Summary edit

This is a photo from the cover of Al Sherman's autobiographical novel, "Potatoes Are Cheaper".

Licensing edit

This image is of a cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the work or the artist(s) which produced the recording or cover artwork in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such covers solely to illustrate the audio recording in question, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlSherman1940s.jpg true

FUR edit

This person is dead. Ability to find free image would be difficult.