Image:The Notorious BIG.JPG

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[edit] Summary

• Description: A promotional shot of The Notorious B.I.G..
• Source: [1], [2] (higher resolution from official MySpace)
• Copyright holder: The copyright is believed to be held by Bad Boy Records.

[edit] Fair use rationale for The Notorious B.I.G.

1. A free image cannot be shot because the subject was murdered in 1997.
2. The promotional shot is intended for wide distribution and its use here does not replace the original market role of the image.
3. The image is low resolution. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
4. The image has been previously published.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's image use policy.
7. The image is only used in the said article.
8. The image contributes significantly by providing a visual reference for the rapper.
9. The image is used in the article namespace.
10. The source, licensing tag, and article in which fair use is claimed is provided.

[edit] Licensing

This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. 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. It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it 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.

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