Empress_of_Scotland_troopship.jpg (357 × 280 pixels, file size: 26 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary[edit]
Description |
This is an image of the SS Empress of Scotland. The original name of this ship was Empress of Japan, but the name was changed at the beginning of the Second World War |
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Source |
New York Public Library Picture collection, #30188 -- photograph from Liners:the Golden Age, p. 270 by Robert Fox. ISBN 978-3-829-02862-2 |
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Portion used |
The entire published photograph is used to convey the impression intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. |
Low resolution? |
The digitized image of the original photograph is a size and resolution sufficient for the reader to examine without necessary without being unnecessarily high resolution. |
Purpose of use |
to clarify the various iterations of this vessel -- see "other information" below |
Replaceable? |
Because it this image shows a troop ship with so many men in sight, there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the impression intended by the artist and the National Portrait Gallery, would tarnish or misrepresent this person's image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary. |
Other information |
It relevant that this ship had three names:
This article does show an images of the ship when it was RMS Empress of Japan; and there is also an image of the ship when it was the SS Hanseatic. In this context, it is not obvious how to determine whether or not "fair use" permits this opportunity to show how the ship was different in its wartime role; but this question is posed squarely. |
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of RMS Empress of Japan (1929)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Empress_of_Scotland_troopship.jpgtrue |
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00:43, 28 August 2009 | No thumbnail | 1,648 × 1,274 (560 KB) | Enkyo2 (talk | contribs) | {{Non-free use rationale |Article = Empress of Japan (1930) |Description = This is an image of the SS ''Empress of Scotland.'' The original name of this ship was Empress of Japan, but the name was changed |
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