Image:Lya Mara.jpg

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links

No higher resolution available.
Lya_Mara.jpg‎ (318 × 479 pixels, file size: 59 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

[edit] Summary

This is a portrait of a star of the German silent cinema Lya Mara, from the autographed by her postcard. the source is: http://www.always-the-king.de/Tigger3000/UFA/Krekeler-AK-UFA.html This photo is published under fair use rationale as a low resolution of the publicity material of the epoch. As this post card is at least 70 years old, the publisher's copyright probably expired.

The photograph of Lya Mara is a promotional material published ca. 1920 by UFA film production company which held the copyright to it.

[edit] Licensing

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: the person(s), product, event, or subject in question where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it 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 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 should 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. To the uploader: This tag should only be used for images of a person, product, or event that is known to have come from a press kit or similar source, for the purpose of reuse by the media. Please add a detailed fair use rationale as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the image and copyright information. Additionally, if the copyright holder has granted permission, please provide further details as to the terms.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Lya Mara

1. No free equivalent exists that would effectively identify the article's subject.
2. The image does not in any way limit the ability of the copyright owners to market or sell their product.
3. The image is only used once and is rendered in low resolution to avoid piracy.
4. The image has been published outside Wikipedia; see source below.
5. The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
6. The image meets Wikipedia's media-specific policy.
7. The image is used in the article wiki-linked in the section title.
8. The image is significant in identifying the subject of the article, which is the film or film character itself.
9. The image has a brief description that identifies the image, notes the source, and provides attribution to the copyright holder.

As a film free promotional still photo, the image is not replaceable by other free content.

The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork. Use of photograph of Lya Mara is a promotional material in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above. This image is of a film free promotional still photo, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the producer of the film Lya Mara acted in - in this case German not existing pre-WWII firm UFA. This company ceased to exist. As a free promotional still photo, the image is not replaceable by free content. The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

• Search for duplicate files
• Edit this file using an external application

  See the setup instructions for more information.

File links