File:Hamza Al-Khateeb.jpg
Hamza_Al-Khateeb.jpg (202 × 259 pixels, file size: 43 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary[edit]
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An image of the 13 year old Syrian boy who was detained by Syrian forces and appeared to be brutally tortured. This image has become "the symbol of the revolution", carried by protesters, posted on Facebook pages with 60,000 plus members and commented on specifically in the media as "the face of the Syrian revolution". For extensive sources on the boy's death and the support which involved this media, see Talk:Death_of_Hamza_Ali_Al-Khateeb/Image. |
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English Al-Jazeera http://english.aljazeera.net/mritems/Images/2011/5/31/201153110103720734_8.jpg |
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| Low resolution? |
The relatively small image is not particularly high resolution to begin with. Its resolution has not been reduced. |
| Purpose of use |
To illustrate the person described in the article; to illustrate the image itself which is described in the article; to illustrate the image itself which is the subject of sourced commentary; to illustrate the image itself which has been used in online and street protests. |
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There is no free replacement for this photograph, which is itself the subject of commentary in multiple media sources and is the specific image used in many protest marches and online support websites. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Death of Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hamza_Al-Khateeb.jpgtrue | |
 | This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be 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, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
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. |
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| This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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