File:Paul A. Sperry, inventor and founder of Sperry Top-Sider.png

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Summary

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Description

Paul A. Sperry was a sailor and intrepid inventor who founded the Sperry Top-Sider boat shoe company in 1935.

Author or
copyright owner

Paul A. Sperry

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

Original publication: Published on Sperry.com as part of a biographical photo of the founder of Sperry.

Immediate source: http://www.sperry.com/en/our-story/

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

Paul A. Sperry

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

Paul A. Sperry was not in the limelight and was not often featured in marketing or advertising.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

Paul A. Sperry's image will be used on his page and on the Sperry Top-Sider article to simple identify the founder with a visual.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

Paul A. Sperry is deceased, however his company is still alive and well. This image was once in use by Sperry for marketing purposes and is not negative or defamatory.

Other information

The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: November 1982

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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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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:03, 21 December 2015		159 × 195 (72 KB)	Justin at Sperry (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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