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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.

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[edit] Fair use rationale

The object in the photo is a cheap, trivial, mass-produced ashtray of unknown origin which was purchased at a jumble sale in Vienna, Austria in the early 2000s. The image can be found in the article on "kitsch" to illustrate what kitsch is. A picture says more than a thousand words.

Photo by KF, June 2006.