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Photograph showing divers with the largest catch of the 1963 World Octopus Wrestling Championships, a 57 pound North Pacific Giant Octopus.

Originally published in: Skin Diver Magazine July 1963

Scanned from: Norman, M.D. 2000. Cephalopods: A World Guide. ConchBooks.

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This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Octopus wrestling" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([1]),

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.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

Use of this copyrighted image in the article Octopus wrestling is believed to be fair use on the grounds that:

No equivalent image is available in the public domain or could be created that would adequately give the same information (the championships have not take place since the 1960s; octopuses are now protected)
It is used here strictly for educational purposes
Use of the image will not significantly detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell the image
Use of the image adds signicantly to the article as it directly illustrates the subject of the article
The image constitutes a small part of the original work
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current	19:10, 3 December 2006	506×791 (291 KB)	Mgiganteus1 (Talk \| contribs)	(Photograph showing divers with the largest octopus catch of the 1963 World Octopus Wrestling Championships, a 57 pound North Pacific Giant Octopus. Originally published in: ''Skin Diver Magazine'' July 1963 Scanned from: Norman, M.D. 2000. ''Cephal)