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for these purposes listed above
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, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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 "Lenna" :

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.

Standard test image "Lenna" from The USC-SIPI image database

[edit] Fair use for Lenna

The image is used in the context of that article to illustrate the subject of that article. The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

it is a historically significant photo;
it is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality)
the photo is only being used for informational purposes.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article.
Quote:

Although Playboy is notorious for cracking down on illegal uses of its images, it has decided to overlook the widespread distribution of this particular centerfold. Says Eileen Kent, VP of new media at Playboy: "We decided we should exploit this, because it is a phenomenon."

Reference: Brown, Jenelle, "Playmate Meets Geeks Who Made Her a Net Star" Wired, 6:11pm 20.May.97.PDT

Also see this Jan 2007 discussion which resulted in a consensus that this and other standard test images do no violate wikipedia's FU policy.

[edit] Fair use for Playboy

The image is used in the context of that article to illustrate the subject of a section of the article. The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

it is a historically significant photo;
it is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality)
the photo is only being used for informational purposes.
Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this section of the article.
Quote:

Although Playboy is notorious for cracking down on illegal uses of its images, it has decided to overlook the widespread distribution of this particular centerfold. Says Eileen Kent, VP of new media at Playboy: "We decided we should exploit this, because it is a phenomenon."

Reference: Brown, Jenelle, "Playmate Meets Geeks Who Made Her a Net Star" Wired, 6:11pm 20.May.97.PDT

Also see this Jan 2007 discussion which resulted in a consensus that this and other standard test images do no violate wikipedia's FU policy.

[edit] Original uploader information

13:32, 30 December 2005 . . PAR (Talk | contribs) . . 512×512 (474,648 bytes) ({{Standard test}} Standard test image "Lenna")

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:09, 29 October 2007	512×512 (463 KB)	McLoaf (Talk \| contribs)	(Optimized using PNGOUT.)
	12:43, 14 April 2007	512×512 (703 KB)	Rusty7 (Talk \| contribs)	({{Standard test}} {{fairusein\|Lenna}} Standard test image "Lenna" from [http://sipi.usc.edu/database/ The USC-SIPI image database] == Fair use for Lenna == The image is used in the context of that article to illustrate the subject of that article. Th)
	20:33, 15 January 2007	336×336 (306 KB)	Angr (Talk \| contribs)	(resize (not too large, not too small))
	01:59, 13 January 2007	131×123 (43 KB)	Oden (Talk \| contribs)	({{Standard test}} {{fairusein2\|Lenna\|Viterbi School of Engineering}} {{fair use reduce}} Standard test image "Lenna" from [http://sipi.usc.edu/database/ The USC-SIPI image database] {{Replaceable fair use\|month=January\|day=11\|year=2007}} {{Replaceable fai)