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| Description | THE GIZMOS 1976 (left to right): Ken Highland, Rich Coffee, Rick Czajka, Dave Medlock, Dave Sulak, Ted Niemiec, Eddie Flowers (sitting), Jim DeVries. (photo by Lynn Riechers). |
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| Author or copyright owner |
Lynn Riechers |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: This photo was first used on the sleeve for the band's debut EP in 1976. It was also used for the 2006 "Studio Recordings" compilation Immediate source: http://www.slippytown.com/gizmos.htm |
| Date of publication | 1976 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | The Gizmos |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | This photo visually illustrates the subject of the article. This line up of the band broke up in 1977 and has not reformed since, so no free image is possible. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
The band no longer exists, so no free image is possible. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | It will be used once only in the article on the band depicted in the photo. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The image has been used in several articles on the internet, so it is freely available elsewhere. Its use here does not diminish the author's ability to re-use it. |
| Other information |  This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
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. This is the complete, original line-up of the Gizmos, which only existed between 1976 and 1977. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Gizmos//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Gizmos.jpgtrue | |
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| current | 11:55, 11 October 2017 | | 374 × 267 (27 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 21:01, 28 December 2012 | No thumbnail | 490 × 350 (90 KB) | Robman94 (talk | contribs) | Uploading a non-free file using File Upload Wizard |
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