File:Ray Bourbon.webp

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Image of Ray Bourbon
Author or copyright owner	John E. Reed
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: N.A. Immediate source: https://imageamplified.com/the-relevant-queer-vaudeville-drag-performer-actor-recording-artist-rae-bourbon-born-august-11-1892/
Date of publication	1956
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Ray Bourbon
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)	subject is deceased
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	infobox only
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	image size is reduced
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: July 19, 1971
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Ray Bourbon//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ray_Bourbon.webptrue

Licensing

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Ray Bourbon":

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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