Summary

Summary

Fair use for Spike Milligan

This photograph uses most of the portion of the head to the bottom of the image, is of reduced resolution, serves as a visual identification for the article's subject, Spike Milligan. It illustrates the subject's final residence at Rye, Sussex. The infobox image is also used to correlate the given facts that Milligan was the oldest and longest-lived member of The Goon Show per the article's summary prose. It cannot be conveyed by a free content media due to the subject being dead, and no free alternatives of similar photographs (e.g. the subject's face) exists. This also meets the criteria on Wikipedia's "Non-free content" guidelines as the subject is dead.

Licensing

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Spike Milligan": 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 Main Page, hosted on servers in the United States, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on The GSD or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Fair use https://www.thegoonshow.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=File:Spike_Milligan_1990.jpg true

To the uploader: Please add a detailed Non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see GSD:Use rationale examples. Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale. This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.