Image:Red rain Kerala optical microscope.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Image
File history
File links

Image:Red rain Kerala optical microscope.jpg

No higher resolution available.
Red_rain_Kerala_optical_microscope.jpg‎ (300 × 246 pixels, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

[edit] Summary

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Red rain in Kerala
Description	Red rain in Kerala under an optical microscope at 1000x magnification. Original caption: Photomicrograph of the red rain particles under 1000x magnification. Particles have size variation from 4 to 10 micrometers. Inset shows red rainwater contained in a 5ml sample bottle.
Source	Louis and Kumar's research paper
Article	Red rain in Kerala
Portion used	Full
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate the microscopic nature of the rain particles.
Replaceable?	Not replaceable with free image since this phenomenon is very rare.

[edit] Licensing

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 "Red rain in Kerala" :

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.