File:Mel Gordon.webp

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Portrait of Mel Gordon
Author or copyright owner	Joni Lohr
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/obituaries/mel-gordon-71-drama-scholar-of-the-fringe-is-dead-at-71.html Immediate source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/30/obituaries/mel-gordon-71-drama-scholar-of-the-fringe-is-dead-at-71.html
Date of publication	30 March 2018
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Mel Gordon
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)	The person depicted is deceased.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	It will be shown only in the infobox.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	A lowres picture will not harm commercial opportunities.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2018
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Mel Gordon//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mel_Gordon.webptrue

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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.
Fair use

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