Wikipedia:Files for deletion/Replaceable fair use/File:Review Glay.jpg


 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of a fair use image as a replaceable image. Please do not modify it. 

The result was to delete the image.

This image is not replaceable.

I would like to request that Wikipedia waive their "first non-free content criterion" for this image due to the following reasons.

The Japanese media are strict about usage of their stars' images, especially on the Internet. Normally, if you live in Japan and you have a fansite on a famous (Japanese) star, pictures are not included in the website. Note the following two sites on Glay:

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/2358/ (my Japanese friend's site) http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLAY (Glay's Japanese Wikipedia)

This is due to strict copyright infringements in Japan. Only the copyright holder (such as the photographer or the magazine) or the band's official site may use their images.

What Western fans like myself have resorted to is buying the magazines which have pictures of the bands that we like, and then scanning them for personal use (like my Glay fansite: http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Arena/4919/). In a way, the restrictions of Japan do not really apply since the fan and the website are foreign and actually aid in the promotion of the band overseas. (At least, that is how I feel.) And the Japanese Glay fans whom I have befriended do not have a problem with my site, and in fact support it. Plus, two of the supporting members in the band have even linked to my fansite in the past.

I can also assure you that the image (Review Glay.jpg) is impossible to find now since it was taken from a 1997 B-PASS magazine issue that is no longer in circulation (or at best, rare to find, especially outside of Japan).

In sum, I have the original magazine this picture was scanned from. You cannot find this picture online because it is out of print. I submitted this image to Wikipedia because I like this image of Glay; it reflects the period when I liked them. Glay were at the height of the career during the the time this picture was taken as well.

Please reconsider deleting Review Glay.jpg from your English Glay Wikipedia. I would like to keep it as the page's default image.

Thank you.

~aciel


 * The article uses this image only to illustrate the band, but a concert photo would do the same thing. I agree with the nominator this image is replaceable for the use it has in the article. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 14:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
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