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Description	Ghanaian botanist and pioneering plant pathologist and mycologist in West Africa
Author or copyright owner	Freelance photographer/identity of photographer unknown/relative
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Original publication: Published at funeral of the subject in June 2019 Immediate source: Old family album
Date of publication	14 June 2019
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	George C. Clerk
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	For visual identification of the person in question, at the top of his/her biographical article
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	As the subject died only a few months ago, this photo, though in the public domain is still copyrighted per Copyright Act of Ghana. However usage is permitted under "fair use" for educational and non-commercial purposes
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The photo will be used on the article page of the subject of the image i.e. "his image will be shown as a primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the person in question."
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	This photo was meant for only a portrait for the purposes of depicting a high-profile scientist. I believe the owner and the family of the subject have never commercialized the image
Other information	The subject of the photograph has been deceased since: 2 May 2019 None
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of George C. Clerk//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GeorgeCClerk.pngtrue

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to provide visual identification of one or more specific individual(s), or an identifiable gathering of them,
where the individual(s) concerned are deceased, or where access would for practical purposes be impossible,
and for whom there is no known representation under a 'free' license,
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:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:02, 29 October 2019		260 × 382 (119 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	21:22, 20 October 2019	No thumbnail	412 × 606 (254 KB)	Histohob (talk \| contribs)	Smaller size version
	21:20, 20 October 2019	No thumbnail	576 × 842 (721 KB)	Histohob (talk \| contribs)	Smaller version
	18:49, 20 October 2019	No thumbnail	537 × 789 (367 KB)	Histohob (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free historic portrait using File Upload Wizard

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