File:Okot bitek.jpg

Source: The South African Democratic Teachers Union

Rationale of fair use for Okot p'Bitek edit

The image Okot bitek.jpg is being linked here; though the original picture may be copyrighted it is covered by fair use because:

1. The image is important to the article, providing an image of the Okot p'Bitek.
2. There are no known free or public domain head shots of photographs of Archbishop Okot p'Bitek.
3. This image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the original image in any way.
4. The photo is used for non-profit and informational purposes only.

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 "Okot p'Bitek": 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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Okot_bitek.jpg true

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