Image talk:Lady louise.jpg

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• Image:Lady louise.jpg - how is this fair use? --Jiang 07:34, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
  • Looks like an official portrait for press release purposes, which qualifies without trouble as fair use in an article about the subject of the image. Jamesday 14:37, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • Wouldn't that require citation of its source? --Jiang 23:27, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
      • No. As a courtesy it should be there, though - but only as a courtesy. Source is probably the royal photographer or palace press office. I'd like to see it added but don't think it matters to the infringement argument. Adding a source can help to drive business to the source and increase the chance of fair use but that doesn't really apply much to this sort of image, where getting the image widely distributed in as many sources as possible is the purpose of releasing the photograph. Jamesday 09:38, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)
    • From the Beeb - "The pictures of the Wessexes at Christmas, taken with a Canon EOS 1D camera, are the third set of official Royal Family photographs the Duke of York has taken. Keen photographer Prince Andrew became interested in the subject while in the Royal Navy and published a book of mainly black-and-white pictures two years after buying his first camera in 1983. He has previously taken pictures of his mother to mark her 60th birthday and a portrait for her Golden Jubilee. One picture of Lady Louise was released free of charge, but the remaining three images will be sold with profits going to the Earl and Countess of Wessex Charitable Trust." -- user:zanimum
      • Thanks for pointing the way to the confirmation that this image is free for use, via the following chain of links: [1] (one image from press Association free to use), [2] (gallery of images), [3] (the image we have, with the Press Association tag and date of release confirming that it's the one free to use). The description of the image in this story also confirms that we have the right one. So, not fair use but use with permission. Jamesday 11:29, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
        • Are any of the other Royal photographs like that? I can't see it explicitedly said anywhere, but it would be nice if they were. Also, would they be considered an extension of the government, and not have copyrights? -- user:zanimum
      • I expect that the rest of the images in the gallery from which I got to that single image will be similarly free to use but I haven't checked. I think the gallery is linked from the press release. Jamesday 05:30, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)