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    Summary

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    Non-free media information and use rationale true for George Shuba
    Description

    Famous photograph dubbed A Handshake for the Century for featuring the first interracial handshake in a professional baseball game (Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, N.J. April 18, 1946)

    Source

    ThinkBlueLA.com : The Handshake – It’s All About Respect

    Article

    George Shuba

    Portion used

    Entire

    Low resolution?

    Yes

    Purpose of use

    Primary means of identifying two professional baseball players represented as interacting in a historical context

    Replaceable?

    This is a unique event taking place in a baseball park and no free alternative is known to exist

    Other information
    • The use of this image on Wikipedia is contended to be a fair use, since it is used solely for educational purposes in a not-for-profit encyclopedia, is necessary for cultural and historical purposes, and the material value of the possible copyright is not believed to be lessened by its use here
    • It is believed that the use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia to illustrate an article on the person in question falls under the "Non-profit educational" clause of the Fair Use doctrine currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107)
    • It is only being used to illustrate the article in question
    • It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the image in any way
    • For the same reasons, the portion of the copyrighted work used is of inherently lower quality than the original, reducing the risk of competitiveness and therefore the effects of this copy on the market for or value of versions held by the owner of the copyright
    • Furthermore, the image is being used in an informational capacity and thus contributes to the article as a whole
    Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of George Shuba//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:A_Handshake_for_the_Century.jpegtrue

    Licensing

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    This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "George Shuba":
    • 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.

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    current00:51, 11 July 2017Thumbnail for version as of 00:51, 11 July 2017340 × 292 (23 KB)DatBot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
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