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It was made for evidence during a trial, created by govt. entity with taxpayer money, not eligible for copyright.
It is sufficiently old that if it were created with the intention of being copyrighted in the US that it needed to be distributed with a clear copyright notice, which it didn't have.
It is also sufficiently old that if it were intended to be under copyright and had a proper copyright notice that it would have also had to have been renewed to still be covered at copyright at this late date, which it couldn't have been, especially considering the points above.
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08:02, 7 January 2007 (UTC) Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) 217×208 (14 KB) (X-Ray of pelvis of Albert Fish showing over a dozen needles inserted used as evidence at his trial. ==Source== *http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~madison/murder/images/fish_4.jpg {{fairusein|Albert Fish}} ==Rationale== Trial evidence)
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X-Ray of pelvis of Albert Fish showing 29 needles self-embedded. The image was used as evidence at his trial.
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