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Official photograph of Walter Schellenberg. Copyright situation unclear, as with most official Nazi photographs. Presumed copyrighted, and claiming fair use on the basis of a work of unknown authorship.

[edit] Fair use for Walter Schellenberg

Purpose or character of the use: To illustrate an encyclopedia article about the subject of the photograph, Walter Shellenberg.
The nature of the copyrighted work: An official photograph of Hermann Goering.
The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole: The entire photograph, in a moderate-resolution scan
The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work: Minimal, as there is no party that clearly holds copyright to the work, and as such there is no commercial market for the work

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 "WalterSchellenberg" :

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.