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*your materials in turn have to be licensed under CC-BY-SA, and
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Promotional images
This is based on the image guidelines at The Internet Movie Database, so it especially applies to celebrity photographs, but also can apply to other pictures. Legitimate photographs generally come from three different places with permission.

*The studios, producers, magazine publisher, or media outlet that originally created the image.

Agencies that represent the originator of the image or the image creator themself (the latter especially for comic and magazine artists).

*Submissions from the celebrity himself or herself or a legal representative of the celebrity.

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Fair use images

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