File:Bill Sparkman.jpg

Source edit

Western Governors University, Sparkman's alma mater. [1] It is a frequently-used image of Sparkman in television and print media.

Fair use rationale for Suicide of Bill Sparkman edit

• Displays image of person in question.
• Used only in said article for encyclopedic purposes.
• This person is deceased; therefore, a free alternative image cannot be obtained to replace this image.
• The image is frequently used in other media; while that alone does not give Wikipedia free rein to use it, it does mean that the usage of the image for its owner is not significantly compromised by Wikipedia's usage of it.

Licensing edit

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work: To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information 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:Bill_Sparkman.jpg true