File:Larry Levan - Paradise Garage.jpg

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Description	Larry Levan
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: unknown Immediate source: https://paddle8.com/work/bill-bernstein/85905-paradise-garage-dj-larry-levan
Date of publication	unknown
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Larry Levan
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	for visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	As the subject is deceased, no free equivalent could reasonably be obtained or created to replace this media
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	*The use of this image on Wikipedia is contended to be a fair use, since it is used solely for educational purposes in a not-for-profit encyclopedia, is necessary for cultural and historical purposes, and the material value of the possible copyright is not believed to be lessened by its use here It is believed that the use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia to illustrate an article on the person in question falls under the "Non-profit educational" clause of the Fair Use doctrine currently upheld by United States law. (17 U.S.C. § 107) It is a low resolution copy It is only being used to illustrate the article in question The image is irreplaceable; a free analogue is impossible to produce as the original will be covered by copyright for the foreseeable future Owing to the limited web-resolution of the image, only a small portion of a copyrighted work is used It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the image in any way For the same reasons, the portion of the copyrighted work used is of inherently lower quality than the original, reducing the risk of competitiveness and therefore the effects of this copy on the market for or value of versions held by the owner of the copyright
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	As the subject is deceased, no free equivalent could reasonably be obtained or created to replace this media
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 1992
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Larry Levan//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Larry_Levan_-_Paradise_Garage.jpgtrue

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
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

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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.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:01, 7 May 2017		386 × 258 (26 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	05:36, 1 March 2017	No thumbnail	700 × 468 (146 KB)	ILIL (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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Larry Levan