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Non-free / fair use media rationale for George Mikan
Description	The basketball player George Mikan, of the Minneapolis Lakers.
Source	[1]
Article	George Mikan
Portion used	Full
Low resolution?	Yes, image does not exceed 600px.
Purpose of use	The image is meant to identify the article's subject (George Mikan) to show what he looked like.
Replaceable?	The subject has been deceased since 2005. The image was taken before the subject died. The image is not replaceable as there clearly cannot be any free image taken, as none are available.

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "George Mikan" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

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.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:16, 3 March 2008	200×344 (15 KB)	Holiday56 (Talk \| contribs)	({{Non-free media rationale \| Description = The basketball player George Mikan, of the Milwaukee Lakers. \| Source = [ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4677822] \| Portion = Full \| Low_resolution = Yes, image does not exceed 600px. \| )