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Promotional photo taken by Kristy Sparrow of the band The Murdocks.

[edit] Licensing

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The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion.

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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. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale should be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.

Rationale for "fair use" in the articles The Murdocks :

This image is used for the purposes of scholarship, criticism and comment on the band The Murdocks.

According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976:

The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment,...scholarship...is not an infringement of copyright. [1]

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current	03:43, 5 April 2008	350×239 (86 KB)	The King of Extreme (Talk \| contribs)	({{Non-free use rationale \|Article= \|Description= \|Source=http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=8872 \|Portion= \|Low_resolution= \|Purpose=For the education of the reader. \|Replaceability= \|other_information= }})