File talk:January 2009 Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula video.jpg

Contested deletion

This file should not be speedy deleted as having an invalid fair-use claim, because:

1. Those photographed were underground figures -- no-one is going to take a picture of them at a public event, and release it under a free license;
2. Several of these individuals are dead;
3. The video itself triggered extensive comment, and the appearance of the individuals in the video triggered specific comments;
4. This was a one-time event;
5. I suspect the nominator noticed that the source URL was ABC News, and assumed that meant that ABC News was claiming the intellectual property rights to the image. That would have been a serious mistake on the nominator's part.
   1. The intellectual property rights would either be owned by a junior member of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or by AQAP itself.
   2. We are very unlikely to ever know who the photographer was. In the unlikely event that an amnesty was offered to AQAP, and the original photographer wanted to reap profits from the video, how would he ever prove he was the photographer?

Geo Swan (talk) 18:59, 28 August 2013 (UTC)

I concur. This image seems to have its origin as propaganda which fully desires to be copied, and as such the author has, by all reason, given up their claim to U.S. copyright by the very nature of its publication. -- Kendrick7^talk 02:38, 29 August 2013 (UTC)