Template:Non-free fair use

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
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 may be helpful for stating the rationale.
This tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use.

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

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NOTE: This template does not replace {{Non-free use rationale}}, which is required on the image description page to explain how the image is used in a way consistent with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria.

Place this template in image description pages of non-free images that do not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips.

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This template should be used on the description page of non-free images that do not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories. It does not replace the non-free use rationale template, which is required on the image description page to explain how the image is used in a way consistent with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria.

Template parameters[Edit template data]
Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Image has rationale?	`image has rationale` `image_has_rationale`	This parameter should have the value “yes” if a rationale is provided for the image.	String	optional

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