File:Lyon Sisters Suspect Wheaton Plaza Shopping Center March 25 1975.jpg

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Image depicts a Montgomery County Police Department facial composite of Lloyd Lee Welch Jr. created from eyewitnesses' description of a young male seen leering at the girls on March 25, 1975.

Author or
copyright owner

Montgomery County Police Department sketch artist

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

WTOP-FM News article. Direct link here

Date of publication

March 1975

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon

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 identikit subsequently proven to be of the individual convicted of the murder of the subjects to whom the Wikipedia article in question is devoted to.

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)

* The portion of the image used here is cropped from the one used upon the source from where the image is taken (NFCC3)

Image is intended solely for usage upon one sub-section of the article upon which usage is intended
Image is 171x193px; original (color) image is 300x291px
Image is of a tinted hue - making it a lower resolution quality

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.

Image has been vastly distributed in the media, via various methods, since 1975 (including latterly the internet), and in both a better visual quality, and un-cropped.
Original police department author has been credited
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 person and structure depicted, falls under the "Non-profit, educational" clause of the 'Fair Use' doctrine, as currently upheld by U.S. law. (17 U.S.C. § 107.)

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lyon_Sisters_Suspect_Wheaton_Plaza_Shopping_Center_March_25_1975.jpgtrue

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.

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:57, 22 October 2023		171 × 193 (17 KB)	Kieronoldham (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free work, as object of commentary using File Upload Wizard

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Murders of Katherine and Sheila Lyon