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[edit] Fair use replacement

User:Petaholmes added {{fairusereplace}} to the information on this image. I'm not sure how a free replacement could be made of a diagram found in a source publication that is being used. Any information here would be nice. joshbuddy^talk 22:40, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

Well, technically someone else could draw the same diagram in Inkscape or whatever. But frankly, I'm not convinced this image even meets the threshold of originality required to claim copyright in the first place. I think {{PD-ineligible}} is the way to go. —Angr 16:32, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

The diagram is from a JW publication; and it certainly depicts an original idea, being their specific view of a religious hierarchy. The copyright status currently attributed to the image is incorrect.--Jeffro77 01:53, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This is not fair use

Use of this image without permission does not constitute fair use.

Miller, v. Universal City Studios, Inc., (650 F.2d 1365, 1369, July 23, 1981.), holds that copyright can exist solely in “...the originality of the selection and arrangement of the factual material...”

Therefore, in this image, the copyright would exist the mere depiction of the factual material, including the rays emanating from the top center, the selection and arrangement of the boxes, and the organization with the image thereof.

The copyright does not have to be registered, nor does the image have to be published for the copyright to exist.

The ineligible template is inappropriate because the threshold of originality is clearly met even in the depiction of the rays emanating from the center of the image. This is indicated on the Threshold of originality wikipedia page “if a work without the minimal requirements for originality contains some copyrightable elements - a paragraph describing the Yellow Pages or random designs on the blank forms - those elements are protected with a thin copyright.”

Although the description of being “with a thin copyright” is inaccurate as copyright either exists or it doesn’t - and it certainly does.

Permission should be obtained for this material immediately or this image should be taken down. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.56.60.98 (talk) 02:34, 10 January 2007 (UTC).