File:Corsi.jpg

Summary[edit]

The source of this image is as follows: https://library.syracuse.edu/digital/guides/c/corsi_e.htm

I'm looking to use this image of deceased politician Edward F. Corsi in my article titled "1938 United States Senate special election in New York". The author of the photograph is to my knowledge unknown, though the image is sourced from syracuse university.

Though I am aware of the policy rejecting the use of free-use content for the purposes of identifying a living individual, I believe that would not apply here as the individual in question (Edward F. Corsi) is in fact deceased, having died in 1965. Due to his status as a deceased individual, this very clearly meets "Pictures of deceased persons, in articles about that person, provided that ever obtaining a free close substitute is not reasonably likely.", and the image is therefore qualified for employment under fair use laws.

Furthermore, I believe this image qualifies for free use for the purposes of identifying Mr. Corsi as I was unable to find any photograph of Mr. Corsi that was in the Public Domain. All other photographs of Mr. Corsi that I was able to find were both not in the public domain and of lower quality; this is except for an image of Mr. Corsi by the New York Times that, while also copyrighted was of higher quality. I choose not to use that image for fear it'd violate the respect for commercial opportunity principle. Therefore, this image meets the "no free equivalent criterion" laid out in WP:NOTFREE.

As Mr. Corsi is a primary subject in the article I plan on using this image for, this image also clearly qualifies for the "contextual significance" criterion outlined in WP:NOTFREE. It will also be minimally used (only once in the entire article, on the electoral infobox), which is pursuant to WP:NOTFREE.

Finally, Edward F. Corsi was a Commissioner of Immigration at Ellis Island, candidate for US Senate, candidate for NYC Mayor, and much more throughout his life, and I believe that permitting the usage of this picture under fair use for the purposes of identifying him to the public would greatly support the mission of wikipedia.

Licensing[edit]

This photograph is copyrighted and is NOT under a free license. However, it is believed that the use of this work: 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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Corsi.jpg true

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. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.