File:Black Panther Drainage Shaft Bathpool Park March 1975.jpg

Black_Panther_Drainage_Shaft_Bathpool_Park_March_1975.jpg(174 × 267 pixels, file size: 45 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Description Image depicts the entrance to the drainage shaft beneath Bathpool Park where the Black Panther forced his kidnapping victim, Lesley Whittle.
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Staffordshire Police photographer
Source (WP:NFCC#4) stokesentinel.co.uk. URL here
Date of publication 8 March 1975
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

To illustrate the extents to which the perpetrator of the ransom kidnap went to conceal his victim, and to illustrate the claustrophobic confines.

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Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) * The image is cropped from the original
  • Image is of a tinted hue
  • Image is slightly skewed
  • Original image is 616x950px; this image is 174 x 267px
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The use of a low resolution image of the artwork will not impact the commercial viability of the art.
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  • This image has no free equivalent
  • The image has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods including magazines, newspapers and television, & latterly the internet, since 1975, and in doing so, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution, in color, un-skewed, and in an un-cropped form
  • The precise name given to the file, plus the nature of the content, makes any ambiguous usage of this image extremely unlikely
  • Use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate a section of the article discussing aspects relating to the person depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Panther_Drainage_Shaft_Bathpool_Park_March_1975.jpgtrue

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