File:Ng6f.jpg

homo erectus cranium

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work: To illustrate the subject in question Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information 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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ng6f.jpg true

Image from the Smithsonian website used under fair use guidelines: [1]

FAIR USE IS PERMITTED

Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected materials for non-commercial educational purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary, news reporting, and other content. Unless otherwise noted, users who wish to download or print text and image files from this Web site for such uses may do so without the Smithsonian Institution’s express permission, provided that they comply with the following conditions

1. The content may only be used for personal, educational or noncommercial purposes;
2. Users must cite the author and source of the content as they would material from any printed work;
3. The citation must include all copyright information and other information associated with the content and the URL for the Smithsonian Institution website;
4. None of the content may be altered or modified;
5. Users must comply with all other terms or restrictions which may be applicable to the individual file, image or text.

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It is a photo of a famous fossil.
2. Fair use is explicitly permitted by the copyright holder as outlined above.
3. The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the fossil is the main subject of the article and the fossil's anatomical features are of extreme importance to the article.
5. It would be difficult if not impossible to obtain quality non-copyrighted photographs of this rare fossil.

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It is a photo of a famous fossil
2. Fair use is explicitly permitted by the copyright holder as outlined above.
3. The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because the fossil the photograph depicts is compared to other human evolution fossils. The ability to compare the physical features of various fossils through their photographs is one of the main purposes of the article.
5. It would be difficult if not impossible to obtain quality non-copyrighted photographs of this rare fossil.