File:American author Matt Christopher.png

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	A color portrait of American author Matt Christopher, wearing a suit and smiling.
Author or copyright owner	Unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Unknown Immediate source: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B000APFXQQ/about
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Matt Christopher
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)	Subject has been dead since 1997 and no free image can be created or found.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	Will be used solely to illustrate subject at top of article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	Image is greatly reduced in resolution, making copies non-viable commercially.
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1997
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Matt Christopher//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:American_author_Matt_Christopher.pngtrue

Licensing

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

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

To the uploader:

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.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
Template:Non-free use rationale biog may be helpful for stating the rationale.
This tag should only be used for biographical images, typically those used to identify the subject.

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