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Bob Wilkins in his iconic rocking chair

publicity photograph provided by Wilkins, scanned from copy in personal collection

Bob Wilkins (television personality)

Yes

For illustration of the subject in the above-mentioned article

No

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It is believed that the use of some images of promotional material to illustrate:

• the person(s), product, event, or subject in question;
• where the image is unrepeatable, i.e. a free image could not be created to replace it;
• on the English-language Misplaced Pages, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation;

qualifies as fair use under Copyright law of the United States. Any other usage of this image, on Misplaced Pages or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Misplaced Pages:Non-free content and Misplaced Pages:Publicity photos.

Additionally, the copyright holder may have granted permission for use in works such as Misplaced Pages. However, if they have, this permission likely does not fall under a free license.

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