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[edit] Fair use for Portuguese-Indian War

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

It is a historically significant photo serving as evidence of Portuguese police brutality against Goan freedom activists
The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
This photograph is significant in the capacity that it has served as evidence of Portuguese police brutality against unarmed freedom activists in Goa in 1954. Due to the nature of press freedom available in Portuguese Goa, it is unlikely that other such photographs may also exist.

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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 "Goa Liberation" :

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.

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current	12:03, 20 January 2008	400×264 (25 KB)	Tigerassault (Talk \| contribs)	(=== Fair use for Goa Liberation === Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because: # It is a historically significant photo serv)