Alexander_Shimkin_1965.jpg (213 × 289 pixels, file size: 34 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
| Description |
Booking photograph of deceased civil rights worker Alexander Shimkin (1944-1972) created by the Montgomery, Alabama, Police Department at the time of Shimkin's arrest in Montgomery in March 1965 for alleged "failure to obey a lawful police order" during a civil rights demonstration. The image was apparently created by an employee of the department. |
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| Portion used |
This image has been cropped from the ADAH file that also includes booking information, i.e. a physical description of the arrestee, his home address, the circumstances of his arrest, etc. |
| Low resolution? |
The image is "grainy" to begin with. |
| Purpose of use |
Use in the English Wikipedia article about Alexander D. Shimkin, which includes mention of his civil rights activity and related arrests. |
| Replaceable? |
The uploader has made a diligent web search over a period of months for identifiable images of Alexander Shimkin and has found none besides this one. At this time there is no free-use image known to the uploader. |
| Other information |
Although booking photos created by the federal government are in the public domain, the status of mug shots created by local and state authorities varies. The uploader believes that a "fair use" tag is appropriate in the circumstances. This is not a commercial or press image. It almost certainly qualifies as a "public record" under the Alabama Code, which contains this definition: "All written, typed or printed books, papers, letters, documents and maps made or received in pursuance of law by the public officers of the state, counties, municipalities and other subdivisions of government in the transactions of public business and shall also include any record authorized to be made by any law of this state belonging or pertaining to any court of record or any other public record authorized by law or any paper, pleading, exhibit or other writing held with, in or by any such court, office, or officer." (41-13-1 [1975]) Source: Alabama Department of Archives and History. |
| Fair use Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Alexander D. Shimkin//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_Shimkin_1965.jpgtrue | |
Licensing
 | This media is a booking photo, more commonly known as a
mug shot, normally produced in the regular operations of a law enforcement agency or correctional facility.
Some booking photos (such as those produced by the FBI) are in the public domain, while others may be copyrighted. Laws concerning disclosure of information, data protection and privacy may be applicable, especially as part of a publicly or widely distributed document. In particular, US courts have ruled that the public may not have the right to obtain a copy of a mugshot from the government, but that if obtained, may be published. This template is not a valid license tag alone. Please accompany it with an appropriate license. |
 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as
non-free 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. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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