File:Pottery Cottage Murders Hughes Crime Scene January 14 1977A.jpg

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Description Image depicts Pottery Cottage (as the residence was then known), Eastmoor, Chesterfield, England. Photographed by investigators from Derbyshire Constabulary on 14 January 1977.
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copyright owner
Derbyshire Constabulary police officer
Source (WP:NFCC#4) derbyshiretimes.co.uk. Direct link here
Date of publication 14 January 1977
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Pottery Cottage murders
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) For visual identification of the object of the article. The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to a discussion of this work.
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(WP:NFCC#1)
Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) *Image is of a low resolution quality
  • The image is much smaller than the original (original image size is 846x600px; this image is 397x244px)
  • Image is cropped from that of original, reducing commercial reproduction likeliness
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
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 already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods since 1977 (including the Internet), and in doing so, has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution & in an un-tinted form (NFCC4)
  • The precise name given to the file - plus the nature of the content - make any ambiguous usage of this image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)
  • Image is of a tinted hue from the linked original - reducing visual quality (NFCC2)
  • Having specifically named and credited the website from where I captured this image, plus having specifically named the original authors of the image in question, as well as meeting the specific criteria outlined above, this image does meet the Non-free use rationale guidelines outlined by Wikipedia (NFCC10)
  • Strongly believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate the infobox of the article relating to the deaths of the persons 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 Pottery Cottage murders//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pottery_Cottage_Murders_Hughes_Crime_Scene_January_14_1977A.jpgtrue

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