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| Description | This is a photo of the hockey player Bill Masterton |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Unknown possibly the Minnesota North Stars |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: During the 1967–68 NHL season by the Minnesota North Stars Immediate source: https://mbhockeyhalloffame.ca/4535-2/ |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Bill Masterton |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Masterton died before a free-use image could be taken, therefore a free alternative could not possibly be obtained |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | It will only be used in the info box of Masterton article and no where else |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
This image is to be used under fair use law, and will not harm any commercial opportunities of its owner |
| Other information | The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1968 |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Bill Masterton//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bill_Masterton_with_Minnesota.jpegtrue | |
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This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Bill Masterton":
- 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.
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- 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 biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
- This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject.
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| current | 00:00, 20 January 2026 | | 282 × 353 (70 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 18:37, 19 January 2026 | No thumbnail | 500 × 626 (56 KB) | Lolcow33 (talk | contribs) | Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard |
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