Image:Spencer1.jpg

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Description

This image is a digital reproduction of a photograph depicting Herbert Spencer. The photograph, made in the 1880s and no later, is in the possesion of the uploader and this was used to produce the scan. The subject died in 1903. This description also forms the basis of the irrefutable claim that this image is Public Domain. Any attempt to ascribe or claim copyright is therefore theft and no action can conceivably be undertaken to delete this image. Attempts to do so will undermine the good faith required by the wikimedia community>
Source

The source is given as the uploader of this image who describes the photograph as "Carte-de visite photo" and to be dated within the 1880s. The great age of this image and the death of the subject beyond the reach of any claims of ownership put this well with in the Public Domain. A tag attached to this file erroneously suggested that this image might fall within the scope of some form of ownership. It can not.
Date

circa 1880
Author

scanned by contributor from original in his possession
Permission
(Reusing this image)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. The original image comprising the work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

Note that a few countries have copyright terms longer than 70 years: Mexico has 100 years, Colombia has 80 years, and Guatemala and Samoa have 75 years. This image may not be in the public domain in these countries, which moreover do not implement the rule of the shorter term. Côte d'Ivoire has a general copyright term of 99 years and Honduras has 75 years, but they do implement that rule of the shorter term.

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current12:27, 25 July 2007283×408 (35 KB)Macdonald-Ross ({{Information |Description= Herbert Spencer |Source= Vanity Fair |Date= April 26 1879 |Author= 'C.G.' |Permission= 75-year rule |other_versions= }} )
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