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Fair use for 'Samuel Leibowitz and Scottsboro Boys'

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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 an attorney in a public court in many famous cases.
  3. The other persons in the photo are also important historical figures who were defendants in a public court, who were incarcerated at the time the photo was taken in 1932 and for many years thereafter.
  4. Everyone in that photo has been dead for years.
  5. The photographer was Fred Hiroshige, a photographer for the Decatur Daily newspaper during the 1933 Decatur trial. Found at http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm
  6. After careful research, I found on: "Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839–1941", some evidence that Fred Hiroshige died in Alabama in 1981; this means his works will not be entering Public Domain until at least 2052.
  7. The photo is being used for identification of the people it depicts, especially important to this article and to the article on the Scottsboro Boys that talks about the people in that photo extensively.
  8. The photo depicts the close relationship these black youths had with their attorney and the fact that National Guard troops had to protect them at the time of Leibowitz's representation of them, which protection the Scottsboro Boys article discusses extensively.
  9. The photo shows the bedraggled dress of these youths, which gives insight into how they appeared to white juries in 1930s era Alabama.
  10. The Samuel Leibowitz article describes that the most important event in the life and career of Attorney Samuel Leibowitz was his representation of these youths, which this photo depicts.

The license would be fair-use for persons who are dead.

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A front-on view of Attorney Samuel Leibowitz, the Scottsboro Boys and the National Guard troops protecting them.

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current22:46, 10 January 2009Thumbnail for version as of 22:46, 10 January 2009336 × 293 (31 KB)Springfieldohio (talk | contribs)Author unknown. Found at http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/trialheroes/HORTON.jpg. ===Fair use for 'Judge James Edwin Horton'=== Though this image is from a web site subject to copyright, I feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws

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