Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing high school training ship that was sunk by the U.S. submarine USS Greenville in the Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision on February 6, 2001. Source: http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2005/MAB0501.htm, a U.S. government document, but the photo is not a U.S. government, public domain image. The credit is "Ehime Prefecture photo."

Fair use Rationale for Ehime Maru

Though the picture is subject to copyright I feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• It in no way infringes or assists in the illegal reproduction or distribution of the content of the event, goods or services being advertised;

• It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the event, goods or services in any way;

• The image is of small size and inferior quality/resolution, so that attempts to make illegal print copies of the poster artwork would be useless;

• The image is being used strictly for informational and/or educational purposes;

• It furthers the goals of providing verifiable information concerning the subject matter, in that it visibly demonstrates content which is referenced explicitly or implicitly within the text of the article itself.

• No free images have been found of the subject

Cla68 00:23, 16 February 2007 (UTC)

Licensing

This is a copyrighted and/or unlicensed photograph depicting a watercraft. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article " Ehime Maru incident" to illustrate the watercraft in question where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information 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:Fair use and Wikipedia:Copyrights. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EhimeMaru.jpg true

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