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[edit] Rationale

This is a free picture of some Coke bottles. Unfortunately it is probably also a derivative image of the copyrighted Coke design, so it's tagged as fair use. It is used to show what a bottle of Coke looks like. It is non-free and unreplaceable because I can't make a fake Coke bottle and call it a real one, that would be illegal. The Coke design is ubiquituous and variations on it are studied to mark the various successes and follies of Coca-Cola's marketing strategies.

This is a two-dimensional representation of a copyrighted sculpture, statue or any other three-dimensional work of art. As such it is a derivative work of art, and per US Copyright Act of 1976, § 106(2) who owns copyright of the original has the exclusive right to authorize derivative works.

Per § 107 it is believed that reproduction for criticism, comment, teaching and scholarship constitutes fair use and does not infringe copyright.

It is believed that the use of a picture

to illustrate the three-dimensional work of art in question,
to discuss the artistic genre or technique of the work of art
or to discuss the artist or the school to which the artist belongs

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, might be copyright infringement.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use as well as copyright information on the original artwork.

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