File:CherrieMahanSuspectVanTraversingSkier1985Pennsylvania.jpg

CherrieMahanSuspectVanTraversingSkier1985Pennsylvania.jpg(304 × 173 pixels, file size: 50 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

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Description This image depicts an artist's rendition, drawn from eyewitnesses' memory, of a "bluish-green" Dodge van (never located), seen in the close vicinity on the date of the abduction of the still-missing eight year old child, Cherrie Mahan. Usage of this file is intended to illustrate the section relating to the public aspect of ongoing police and public efforts to locate Cherrie Ann Mahan.
Author or
copyright owner
Artist commissioned by Pennsylvania State Police
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Newspapers.com. Immediate source here
Date of publication February 1985
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Disappearance of Cherrie Mahan
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):

The purpose of usage is to encourage encyclopedic discussion of this artist's rendition of a still-unlocated vehicle.

Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
n.a.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) The image is cropped from the original. This image is just 304 x 173px in size as opposed to original, which is 546 x 578px in size

Image is also slightly cropped

Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
n.a.
Other information


The author of the image created the rendition for police use into the public domain, for free press circulation, in 1985, in active efforts to generate public interest and "tips" in (continuing to this day) efforts to identify the vehicle and locate the still-missing child whom the Wiki. article this file usage is intended upon.

(NFCC1): This image has no free equivalent; meeting Wikipedia's guidelines

(NFCC4): This image (and very similar derivatives by the same police artist) has already been widely distributed in the media via various methods since Feb. '85 and, in doing so, this image has been displayed in a better visual quality

Precise name I have given to the file - plus the nature of the content - make ambiguous usage of the image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)

Believed that the 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 Disappearance of Cherrie Mahan//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CherrieMahanSuspectVanTraversingSkier1985Pennsylvania.jpgtrue

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