File:2004-10-29 Bin Laden still.jpg

A still of 2004 Osama bin Laden video, aired on al Jazeera on October 29, 2004.

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Fair use rationale

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1. There is no free equivalent.
2. This does not significantly affect the commercial opportunities of the copyright holder, namely Al-Qaeda.
3. It is a minimal usage; a single still from a video.
4. It was previously published and used under fair use by other websites, e.g. the BBC.
5. Content is encyclopedic, illustrating a Bin Laden video.
6. It is in the appropriate type of media, a jpeg.
7. It is used in at least one article.
8. It is significant to the subject.
9. It is currently only used in the article namespace.
10. This image description page contains the relevant information.

Licensing

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted video, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the individual or company which produced the video, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for identification and critical commentary on the video and its contents on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2004-10-29_Bin_Laden_still.jpg true

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