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source: https://www.espn.com/golf/news/story?id=1784074

Douglas Kenney in the mid-70s, appears in Kenney biography A Futile and Stupid Gesture, it is credited to Pedar Ness © (although no copyright status is mentioned)

Fair Use Rationale for Douglas Kenney

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  1. It is a historically significant photo necessary to illustrate a famous person
  2. The photo is only used to represent what the subject looked like
  3. This is used for encyclopedic purposes, no profit is gained from its use
  4. There is no free alternative

User:Quadell asserts that the limited use of this copyrighted image in Wikipedia articles directly pertaining to it is a fair use of the image, for the following reasons:

  • It depicts a deceased person. Therefore no new images of the subject can be created.
  • No free-license alternatives are available that convey the same information.
  • The image is no larger, and of no higher quality, than required for its use in articles.
  • It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
  • Its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder.
  • Its use on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.

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current23:40, 1 June 2006Thumbnail for version as of 23:40, 1 June 2006195 × 262 (43 KB)Registered user 92 (talk | contribs)source: http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=1784074 This is the ONLY publicly released photo of Kenney, so it is irreplacable, and it seems to be from someone's personal collection, so i'm not sure if it's even copyrighted at all. {{fairusein}}

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