File:Ruby Winters.jpg

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	a promo shot of American R&B singer Ruby Winters
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: promo shot for the Millennium album release I Will Immediate source: Indiana University Image Collections Online
Date of publication	1978
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Ruby Winters
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)	Virtually all images of Ruby Winters appear in music trade magazines or are attached to her recordings.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	My intent is to feature this image file only one time in the article on Ruby Winters.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	This picture is included in the AAAMC Black Radio Collections whose images "are made available under an assertion of fair use (17 U.S.C. 107) and may be used only for non-commercial educational or research purposes." (http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/images/item.htm?id=http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/photos/VAC2427/PA003903)
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: August 7 2016
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ruby Winters//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ruby_Winters.jpgtrue

Licensing

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Ruby Winters":

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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