File:WearsideJackRipperJohn Humble Police BeliefA.png

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Image depicts one of numerous billboards displaying the handwriting of "Wearside Jack", as released to the public following his June 1979 infamous cassette tape sent to the inquiry room.

Author or
copyright owner

John Frost

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

slow-journalism.com. Direct link here

Date of publication

1979

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

Peter Sutcliffe

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

To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

To illustrate the tactics of the hoaxer who derailed the police investigative efforts into their collective search for the Yorkshire Ripper, and their exhaustive methods/resources into the shallow hoaxer.

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

Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

To quote the NFCC#3 guidelines: 'An entire work is not used if a portion will suffice.' The portion of the image used here is cropped from that used upon the online source from where the image has been taken

Image is 405x280px in size; original image (easily accessible to anyone who browses the web), is 1,200x900px in size
The precise name given to this file makes any ambiguous usage highly unlikely
The image is cropped from original, and of a tinted hue (as opposed to the original)
Intended solely for usage upon one sub-section of article

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

The use of a low resolution image of the artwork will not impact the commercial viability of the art.

Other information

In addition to the non-free use assertion shown on this page, the copyright holder has granted permission for this image to be used in Wikipedia. This permission does not extend to third parties.

This tag must be used in conjunction with another non-free use image tag. If no other tag is present on this page, and this image was uploaded after May 19, 2005, please speedily delete this image or tag it with {{db-f3}}.

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each use, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

Precise name I have given to the file - plus the nature of the content - make ambiguous usage of the image extremely unlikely (NFCC9)
Image has already been widely distributed in the media, via various methods, in a blatant and intentional manner (since mid-1979) and, in doing so, this image has been displayed in both a better visual quality, in a higher resolution, plus in an un-cropped, un-tinted form (NFCC4)
Believed that the use of this image upon only the English-language Wikipedia, to illustrate a section of the article discussing aspects relating to the persons depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Peter Sutcliffe//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WearsideJackRipperJohn_Humble_Police_BeliefA.pngtrue

Licensing

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

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale 2 may be helpful for stating the rationale.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

If this tag does not accurately describe this image, please replace it with an appropriate one.

File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:05, 25 July 2022		380 × 262 (110 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	09:25, 24 July 2022	No thumbnail	405 × 280 (118 KB)	Kieronoldham (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free work, as object of commentary using File Upload Wizard

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Peter Sutcliffe

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