File:George_Washington_Thomas.jpg Knowpia

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Low resolution photo of musician George Washington Thomas, died 1937
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/honky-tonk-train-boogie-woogie-craze
Date of publication	unknown
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	George Washington Thomas
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)	No free alternatives available
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Low resolution image for identification purposes only.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Low resolution image of no commercial value.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1937
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of George Washington Thomas//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Thomas.jpgtrue

Licensing edit

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "George Washington Thomas":

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.
Fair use

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Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
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Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
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