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• Description: The classic photography of Japanese short-story writer Motojirō Kajii (梶井 基次郎, Kajii Motojirō^?, sometimes written Motojirou Kajii or Kajii Motojirou, 1901-1932), author of Lemon (檸檬, Remon^?)
• Date and location: (unknown)
• Digital image source:
  1. Image embedded on http://www.barstates.com/cgi-bin/biblio.cgi?page=3 (entry "2006/07/06(Thu) 07:02 No.442", no permalink)
  2. Image new URL: http://www.barstates.com/cgi-bin/biblio/images/442.jpg
  3. Image old URL: http://www.kjk.ne.jp/~states/cgi-bin/biblio/images/442.jpg
• Digital image post-processing: Grey-scaled yellowed B&W original. Enhanced faded contrast with Histogram-stretch. Enhanced faded luminance balance with Highlight=85%, MidTone=50%, Shadow=10%. Cropped white margin from 331x472 to 330x470 pixels.
• Original image copyright: assumed to be © Kyodo News, based on the tag "Courtesy of KYODO NEWS" used under a cropped instance of this image at http://jlpp.jp/english/list/works08/
• Permission: Fair use on a per-article basis, see below.

[edit] Fair use in Motojirō Kajii

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 "Motojirō Kajii" : 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 ([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. 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.

1. It depicts the main subject of a biographical article, which it illustrates.
2. It is non-replacable: the subject died in 1932 (at age 31), and extremely few photographs of him exists (because he was obscure during his lifetime, as well as ashamed of his physical appearance).
3. It is low resolution (330x470 pixels), and of reduced quality (25% compression JPEG file).
4. No public domain image was found using Wikipedia:Wikimedia Commons and Wikipedia:Public domain image resources.

— Komusou ^talk @ 20:04, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

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• It depicts a deceased person. Therefore no new images of the subject can be created.
• No free-license alternatives are available that convey the same information.
• The image is no larger, and of no higher quality, than required for its use in articles.
• It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
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