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Micheline Bernardini wearing the first bikini, 1946

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 "bikini" : 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.

1. Used for latter purpose in Wikipedia, illustrates the Bikini article.
2. A unique historical image which we cannot reproduce by other means, relevant in the Bikini article.
3. I don't know that, because I am not aware of what the original image looks like. However, it is harder not to show the "heart" of the image compared to the heart of the film or a book.
4. Such images are used rarely, probably in some books about fashion history. Wikipedia doesn't compete directly with them because it is an encyclopedia.

I find this image from Bikini Science. I have tried to find out the picture's copyright status. I believe the picture was taken in 1946, because then the bikini was introduced. And the picture must have been taken in Paris. I don't have any other facts about it. If the picture is still under copyright protection in US, the copyright must have either been renewed in 1974 or restored in the 1990s. So there should be a mention about it in the archives. But I don't know the name of the photographer or the magazine that published the picture, so I don't know what to look for. The Bikini Science doesn't tell its author's e-mail address. That's why I can't contact him, and ask who was the photographer, and where the photograph was published. -Hapsiainen 00:13, Nov 20, 2004 (UTC)

The photograph is: © Bettmann/CORBIS. It was taken in Paris, France on July 11, 1946. See image No. BE064855 at the Corbis Web site. I believe the photograph was published in Life magazine soon after it was taken, and the photographer's name may be given there. The online U.S. Copyright Office database contains records from 1978 to the present, and so would not contain the renewal registration of this photograph's copyright in 1973/1974. — Walloon (talk) 15:34, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

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