Template:Non-free promotional: Difference between revisions
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 | This is a copyrighted image that has been released by a company or organization to promote their work or product in the media, such as advertising material or a promotional photo in a press kit. The copyright for it is most likely owned by the company who created the promotional item or the artist who produced the item in question; you must provide evidence of such ownership. Lack of such evidence is grounds for deletion. It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:
qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Publicity photos. Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Wikipedia. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.  Please note that our policy usually considers fair use images of living people that merely show what they look like to be replaceable by free-licensed images and unsuitable for the project. If this is not the case for this image, a rationale must be provided proving that the image provides information beyond simple identification or showing that this image is difficult to replace by a free-licensed equivalent. Commercial third-party reusers of this image should consider whether their use is in violation of the subject's publicity rights.
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Usage
{{Non-free promotional |1= |image_has_rationale= |image_is_of_living_person= }}The optional first parameter may be used to supply a valid URL (including "http://") where the image's terms of use may be found. If it is not supplied, the template will read without a link to the terms of use.
The optional parameter image_has_rationale is available. If it is set to yes, the text at the bottom of the template requesting that the uploader provide a fair use rationale is removed.
The optional parameter image_is_of_living_person is available. If it is set to no, the text detailing the fair use policy as applicable to images of living persons and commercial reuse of the image is removed.