File:AlexanderMcCurdy.jpg

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Organist Alexander McCurdy at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music in the 1940s.
Author or copyright owner	school photographer
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: "In Search of Alexander," documentary broadcast on New Jersey Network Public Television Immediate source: screenshot from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35aDxL9A_Ls
Date of publication	May 21, 2005
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Alexander McCurdy
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	The subject is deceased, and all of his readily available photographs appear to be copyrighted.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	low resolution, single screenshot, for single article
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	low-resolution screenshot with no audio, from a freely viewable YouTube video
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: June 1, 1983
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alexander McCurdy//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlexanderMcCurdy.jpgtrue

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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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