File:Minamata fishing.jpg

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Fishing in Minamata. Taken by W. Eugene Smith.

Source: Le Monde

Copyright held by the Aileen Archive.

I believe this image qualifies as fair use in the article Minamata disease compensation agreements of 1959 because:

the photograph succinctly illustrates fishing in Minamata during the period
the historic photograph cannot be reproduced
the image is of low resolution and will not damage the copyright value of the original photograph

Bobo12345 12:22, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

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). Fair use

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