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[edit] Summary

PHASE 2 graffiti piece, utilizing the "bubble letter" style. New York City circa the early 1970s.

[edit] Licensing

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 "PHASE 2" :

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.

This photographic image is copyrighted to the artist who painted the graffiti piece which the photo captures, namely PHASE 2. It was published in a book called Style: Writing From The Underground co-edited by PHASE 2 and published in 1996, though it is uncertain whether the image was ever published prior to that. The entire image has been used, though it is of lower resolution than the original. The image is used in the article to illustrate the technique of "bubble letter" graffiti writing which the subject of the article pioneered. As such the image falls in line with acceptable fair use guidelines for images used "for critical commentary, including images illustrative of a particular technique or school." The image cannot be replaced by a free content image, because the artwork in question - graffiti by PHASE 2 from the early 1970s - is no longer in existence. Thus old photographs of these graffiti pieces are the only images available.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	09:29, 26 September 2007	309×186 (23 KB)	Bigtimepeace (Talk \| contribs)	(This image is a photograph of graffiti on a subway. The web site from which I downloaded it is almost certainly not the copyright holder, though I have no idea who is. I believe it is usable under the fair use rationale for works of art, namely that paint)