File:Sylvia Likens.jpg

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Description	A photograph of torture and murder victim Sylvia Likens as she appeared prior to her stay with Gertrude Baniszewski.
Author or copyright owner	Unclear, but likely to have been either Lester or Betty Likens.
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Likely to have been in Lebanon, Indiana either before or during 1965, and was likely taken by a family member. Immediate source: Mara Bovsun, Monster mom Gertrude Baniszewski and teen cohorts torture Sylvia Likens to death in Indiana boarding house of horror. // New York Daily News. — Saturday, April 6, 2013. — 8:06 PM
Date of publication	Before or during 1965
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Sylvia Likens
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)	All known photographs of Sylvia Likens are the gory public domain photographs of her dead body taken by police during the investigation, or are personal photographs taken by her family. Since it would be in very bad taste to post one of the crime scene photographs in the infobox, it would be best to use one of Likens prior to her death, and unfortunately, no free image of her could be found.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	It would only be used in the infobox of the article
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject who has been deceased since 1965. No member of her family has sought to profit in any way from Sylvia's death by use of her photos or any other media they may have of her. Since both Sylvia's parents and her sister Jenny Likens are deceased, and no other member of her family has attempted to use any photo of Sylvia Likens for any commercial enterprises, it can be inferred that no harm will arise from the use of the photograph.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: October 26, 1965 The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: October 26, 1965
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Sylvia Likens//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sylvia_Likens.jpgtrue

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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

This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). Fair use

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:03, 7 January 2017		226 × 438 (11 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	15:06, 23 April 2014	No thumbnail	1,200 × 2,330 (152 KB)	Bjnboy (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Murder of Sylvia Likens