File:Viktor_Ivanovich_Patsayev.jpg Knowpia

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Description	Portrait photograph of deceased cosmonaut Viktor Patsayev.
Author or copyright owner	Alexander Mokletsov (1914-1994)
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Rebrov, Mikhail (1983). Советские космонавты. Moscow: Voedezinat. Immediate source: Museum Catalog of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Viktor Patsayev
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	All photo-portraits are still copyrighted. Under Russian law postage stamps can't be cropped, so the (already low resolution) postage stamp with him and other cosmonauts can't be used for portrait and identification purposes.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Resolution reduced, and just for educational purposes.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Photographer has been dead since 1994.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since 1971. Russian copyright expires 1 January 2069, US copyright expires 1 January 1979.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Viktor Patsayev//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viktor_Ivanovich_Patsayev.jpgtrue

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

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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