File:Philip John Smith.jpg

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"Fair use" is claimed because:

The image is of low creative content, being a head-on portrait distributed for identification purposes by the police
The image is being used to illustrate an article about the murderer in question
The image is very low-resolution and not likely to infringe upon any existing market

Summary

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Philip Smith (criminal)
Description	Police mugshot of Philip John Smith released to the media by police investigating his crimes.
Source	West Midlands Police, 2000
Article	Philip Smith (criminal)
Portion used
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate an original encyclopedic article about the subject on Wikipedia. The image is used to illustrate to a reader the visage of Philip Smith, who was convicted of murder in July 2001.
Replaceable?	No
Other information	The photo is of a reduced resolution from the original photograph and was released to the media and public for broad distribution by the police after Philip Smith was charged on three accounts of murder, and they would not lose profit from its further distribution. It has been widely disseminated in the media and by the police. No further free image is likely to be created as the subject is incarcerated. It lacks significant creative elements.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Philip Smith (criminal)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philip_John_Smith.jpgtrue

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.
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