File:Isaiah ross portrait.png

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Summary[edit]

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Black-and-white portrait of American blues artist Isaiah Ross, aka Doctor Ross, holding a guitar and with a harmonica on a rack around his neck
Author or copyright owner	Testament Records
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Cover of LP album "Call the Doctor" by Isaiah Ross Immediate source: https://www.wirz.de/music/testamen/grafik/22064.jpg
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Doctor Ross
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of their biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	No free alternative has been found, and with Ross's death, no image could be created to illustrate the topic in question.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	File will be used solely to identify subject in Wikipedia article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The copy is cropped and of a very low resolution. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork. No commercial use is attached to the use by Wikipedia.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1993
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Doctor Ross//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isaiah_ross_portrait.pngtrue

Licensing[edit]

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
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 uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:59, 31 October 2021		215 × 300 (90 KB)	Rift (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Doctor Ross

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