File:Bridges, RR in Decatur.jpg

Fair use for 'Scottsboro Boys' Article[edit]

Though this image is from a web site subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The web page says the author of that web site, a law professor, does not own the photo, has the permission of no one to use it and posts it himself under a "fair use" rationale.
2. It is a photograph of a historical figure who was a very famous witness in a public court in the very famous Scottsboro Boys case whom this photo identifies.
3. The witness in that photo has been dead for years.
4. Author unknown. Found at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
5. The photo is being used for identification of the person it depicts, especially important to the article on the Scottsboro Boys that talks about the person in that photo extensively.
6. The photo depicts the respectable appearance of this witness who has been portrayed numerous times in dramatizations of this trial as an honest person who was very candid about the shortcomings in the physical evidence in the prosecution's case.
7. The photo is of very low resolution.
8. This photo is for use in the article on the Scottsboro Boys in which case he was a very crucial figure.

The license would be fair-use for a person who is dead.

Description[edit]

A side view of the very famous Dr. R.R. Bridges, at the time he testified at the trial of the Scottsboro Boys in Decatur in 1933 as he appeared at that time, which the Scottsboro Boys article discusses at great length.

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