File:Balltze (Cheems).jpg

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Image of Hong Kong dog Balltze, used in the "Cheems" meme
Author or copyright owner	Balltze's owner Kathy
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Balltze Instagram Immediate source: https://www.instagram.com/balltze/
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Balltze
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the animal in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Balltze is deceased. This exact image was the one used in the "Cheems" meme that made him notable, and is described in the article.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	This image will be used once at the top of the article to identify Balltze in the most notable image of himself. It is small and low definition.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	This is a small image in low definition. The hosting of this image on Wikipedia is unlikely to compete with any merchandising interests of the owner, any more than the same image being used fair use in obituaries or in non-profit memes.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2023
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Balltze//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Balltze_(Cheems).jpgtrue

Licensing

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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

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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 Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:39, 22 August 2023		316 × 316 (84 KB)	Goszei (talk \| contribs)	Larger rescale
	19:00, 20 August 2023	No thumbnail	225 × 225 (7 KB)	Unknown Temptation (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Cheems

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