File:Jerry lawson ca 1980.png

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Description Jerry Lawson taken in 1982
Author or
copyright owner
Unknown, but currently held by Museum of Play / Estate of Jerry Lawson
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Original publication: Hilliard, S. Lee (December 1982). "Cash in on the Videogame Craze: Career opportunities are wide open in this booming multi-billion dollar industry". Black Enterprise. Vol. 12, no. 5. Earl G. Graves, Ltd. pp. 41–6. ISSN 0006-4165.

Immediate source: http://www.museumofplay.org/blog/chegheads/2013/12/collection-documents-the-career-of-video-game-pioneer-jerry-lawson/

Date of publication 2013
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Jerry Lawson (engineer)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with
free media because
(WP:NFCC#1)
Subject has been deceased for >5 years. Neither Google nor Flickr provide free images, and outside of press photos, the only other images are not free nor high-quality. It further also shows him prior to health issues and at a time during the highlight of his career (eg surrounded by the game consoles he was working on ca. 1980)
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) It has been reduced from full size.
Respect for
commercial opportunities
(WP:NFCC#2)
This is a photo stored as part of a donated museum collection to honor Lawson. It is not a press photo (as some other possibilities are there).
Other information The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2011
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Jerry Lawson (engineer)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jerry_lawson_ca_1980.pngtrue

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current06:13, 23 December 2017Thumbnail for version as of 06:13, 23 December 2017377 × 264 (207 KB)Theo's Little Bot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
23:36, 8 February 2017No thumbnail427 × 300 (272 KB)Masem (talk | contribs)Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard
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