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Uploaded: User:JROBBO
Source: High Court of Australia]
Copyright: Commonwealth of Australia
Fair Use: This was the official Australian Government image of Brennan CJ. resolution.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Gerard Brennan
Description	Justice Gerard Brennan of the High Court of Australia
Source	http://www.highcourt.gov.au/brennancj.htm
Article	Gerard Brennan
Portion used	Official photograph, Commonwealth of Australia
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the article on this prominent Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia. No image of the judge or anything to do with his work (besides extremely generic photographs) are available that might act as a distinct image to improve this article.
Replaceable?	This image is almost impossible to replace. Photographs of Chief Justice Brennan in court, where he would most likely have been seen, are illegal and punishable by fines; and by tradition judges in Australia, even High Court judges, do not make frequent public appearances or make public comment. It would be quite impossible in Australia to get a meeting with the judge as they are heavily protected with security. While appearances might happen on occasions, they would be rare and usually limited to specific groups. This image should therefore be deemed non-replaceable. The image also shows the judge working in his office, and as His Honour is no longer in public life, or working as a judge, this image is now unobtainable, and is thus contended to be fair use as demonstrative of the judge at work whilst serving on the High Court bench. Justice Brennan has also aged since the photo was taken, and no photo of him now would adequately portray him as he was when in office. The image adds a great deal to the article in this way also.
Other information	As an official photograph, use of this picture on the English Wikipedia would not financially disadvantage the Commonwealth of Australia in any way.

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On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

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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current	04:41, 28 April 2006	216×171 (28 KB)	JRG (Talk \| contribs)	(Uploaded: User:JROBBO Source: [http://www.hcourt.gov.au High Court of Australia]] Copyright: Commonwealth of Australia Fair Use: Official image of Brennan CJ. Should be fair use as politicians' photos are available for publicity purposes - judges of t)