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The author of this photograph is me, David Shankbone. 8 August 2006. Virgin Mother by Damien Hirst. Plaza of Lever House, New York City.

[edit] Licensing

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,
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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.

Fair use rationale: Used to illustrate a controversial piece of artwork by Damien Hirst on his page, and used to illustrate the plaza on Lever House, where the statue is located

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	22:15, 9 August 2006	768×1,024 (137 KB)	David Shankbone (Talk \| contribs)	(The author of this photograph is me, David Shankbone. 8 Augus 2006. ''Virgin Mother'' by Damien Hirst. Plaza of Lever House, New York City. )