File:Hillsborough disaster Sun.jpg

Summary[edit]

Photograph of the front page of The Sun newspaper depicting the controversial story about the Hillsborough stadium disaster.

Fair use for Hillsborough disaster[edit]

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use because:

1. It is a photo of an important historical event.
2. It is of much lower resolution than the original, so copies made from it will be of very inferior quality.
3. The photo is only being used for informational and educational purposes.
4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article and how the events depicted are significant to the general public.
5. The cover and the reaction to it are discussed extensively, and the use of this image serves an important role in the understanding of the subject.
6. Only a portion (front cover) of an entire newspaper is being used.
7. It does not detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell or profit from their material.

Fair use for The Sun (United Kingdom)[edit]

This image is fair use in the article The Sun (United Kingdom) because:

1. The image is lower resolution than the original work, so copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
2. The use of this image does not detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell or profit from the material.
3. Only a portion (front cover) of an entire newspaper is being used.
4. It is being used for informational and educational purposes.
5. It depicts a historically important cover in the newspaper's history.
6. This cover and the reaction to it are discussed specifically in the article.
7. The use of this image adds to the understanding of the subject of the article.

Fair use for Kelvin MacKenzie[edit]

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use because:

1. The image is lower resolution than the original work, so copies made from it will be of inferior quality.
2. The use of this image does not detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell or profit from the material.
3. Only a portion (front cover) of an entire newspaper is being used.
4. It is being used for informational and educational purposes.
5. It depicts a historically important cover in the history of the editor of the paper.
6. This cover and the reaction to it are discussed specifically in the article.
7. The use of this image adds to the understanding of the subject of the article.

Fair use for Hillsborough disaster and The Sun[edit]

Licensing[edit]

This image is a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the newspaper or the individual contributors who worked on the articles or images depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of newspaper pages to illustrate either the publication of the article or issue in question, with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair 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. Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hillsborough_disaster_Sun.jpg true