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[edit] Summary

This is a mugshot taken of Gary Ridgway during his 2001 arrest, by the King County police department.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Gary Ridgway

It is believed that the use of this image on Wikipedia to illustrate a section of the article on the person depicted falls under the "Non-profit educational" clause of the Fair Use doctrine currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107)
It is unlikely that a freely-licensed image suitable for illustrating the article will be found. As such, the photograph can be reasonably described as "irreplacable".
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[edit] Licensing:

This image is a booking photo, more commonly known as a mug shot, normally produced in the regular operations of a law enforcement agency or correctional facility. It is believed that the use of this photograph

to illustrate the booking consistent with non-free content criteria,
where no free alternative exists or could be created,
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. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work.

This media was proposed for deletion as a replaceable non-free content. The result was to Keep the image, as no adequate free-licensed image exists or can be created to fulfill the limited role performed by this image at the time deletion was considered. However, this image may be replaceable by free images in other contexts, and in such cases the free image must take precedence. A discussion of this decision may exist on the image talk page.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	10:48, 4 April 2008	190×259 (35 KB)	Grillo7 (Talk \| contribs)	(This is a mugshot taken of Gary Ridgway during his 2001 arrest, by the King County police department.{{Non-free mugshot}})