
Summary
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Collage of BBC promotional images from Doctor Who, featuring (from left to right) Kate O'Mara, Archie Panjabi and Anita Dobson as The Rani |
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| Source |
Cropped and reduced from Digital Spy (O'Mara) and BBC (Panjabi and Dobson) |
| Portion used |
Single image |
| Low resolution? |
Yes |
| Other information |
© BBC |
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| Purpose of use |
Primary means of identifying specific representations of a fictional character in the article about that character. |
| Replaceable? |
Copyrighted character and series; by nature, no free versions exist. |
This image, Versions of the Rani.png, is being linked here; though the images contained in the collage are copyright © to the BBC, it is believed that they are covered by the U.S. fair use law because:
- The images in question are low-resolution copies of publicity photographs released between 1963 and 2025;
- The images are being used to identify and for informational purposes about the lead character ("The Rani") from Doctor Who;
- The images are significant because they demonstrate the changing nature of the character in the programme's long history;
- The use of the images in these articles will have no effect on the BBC's commercial use of the images in question.
Licensing
editThe copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.
It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:
- the person(s), product, event, or subject in question;
- where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it;
- on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation;
qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.
Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.
File history
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 00:06, 20 May 2025 | 402 × 248 (204 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) | |
| 02:04, 19 May 2025 | No thumbnail | 2,072 × 1,276 (5.08 MB) | TedEdwards (talk | contribs) | To reduce number of copyrighted images we are using, using just one for Dobson and Panjabi. Making sure two images individually are of similar quality. | |
| 00:04, 19 May 2025 | No thumbnail | 421 × 237 (181 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) | |
| 17:11, 18 May 2025 | No thumbnail | 521 × 293 (262 KB) | Silencedoc (talk | contribs) | Reverted to version as of 14:59, 18 May 2025 (UTC) | |
| 17:04, 18 May 2025 | No thumbnail | 347 × 293 (183 KB) | U-Mos (talk | contribs) | Amend to two modern versions of the character | |
| 14:59, 18 May 2025 | No thumbnail | 521 × 293 (262 KB) | Silencedoc (talk | contribs) | == Summary == Photoshopped collage of BBC promotional images from ''Doctor Who''. {{Flatlist| ; Top * Kate O'Mara ; Middle * Anita Dobson ; Bottom * Archie Panjabi }} All images are BBC promotional photographs, and are copyright © to the BBC. == Sources for separate images == * Panjabi: https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/doctor-who-archie-panjabi-the-rani * Dobson: https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/doctor-who-anita-dobson-michelle-greenidge ==Fair use for [[... |
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