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Gorch Fock. (This ship was later known as the Tovarishch.)

From [1], a web-site selling old postcards for postcard collectors. The image is a scanned old postcard. Postcard collectors are interested in the real thing, and from this image one cannot reproduce a facsimile of a real postcard. I think using the image is thus fair use.

BTW, the price tag for the postcard was €2.—...

Lupo 21:23, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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 "Gorch Fock (1933)" :

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.

[edit] Fair use rationale

Purpose and character of the use: Educational/illustrative use.
Nature of the copyrighted work: Scanned old B/W postcard from Germany, most probably 1933 - 1941.
Amount used: The image is reproduced in full, but already at the source, the resolution is such that it is unlikely that it could be used for serious print publications. In any case, the image cannot be used to produce a facsimile of the postcard it had been scanned from.
Effect of the use on the potential market or value of the image: None. In fact, the source I had given above doesn't have that image anymore, so I would assume the postcard has been sold.

Lupo 14:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)