Image:Rongorongo K-v London (edge).jpg

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Description	The edge of rongorongo Tablet K, the Small London Tablet, showing line 1 of the verso.
Source	Museum of Man
Date	<1860
Author	unknown
Permission (Reusing this image)	See below.

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 "Rongorongo" :

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.

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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Rongorongo
Description	Image of quality sufficient to make out some of the text
Source	Museum of Man
Article	Rongorongo
Portion used	entire
Low resolution?	no
Purpose of use	To demonstrate the mechanics of rongorongo inscriptions, and how every available surface was inscribed due to the scarcity of wood--which has consequences for the structure of the script and therefore for its decipherment--as well as the contents of this particular non-copyrighted text.
Replaceable?	Not possible. The object is held in a museum where it is not possible to photograph it at this angle.
Other information	Image was created for scientific purposes, not commercial use. Every attempt was made not to be creative, but to record the object as accurately as possible. That is, the photo may qualify as Public Domain due to an intentional lack of originality.

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 ([2]),

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Rongorongo text K
Description	Image of quality sufficient to make out some of the text
Source	Museum of Man
Article	Rongorongo text K
Portion used	entire
Low resolution?	no
Purpose of use	To illustrate the contents of this particular non-copyrighted text, which cannot be copied reliably since the script is undeciphered.
Replaceable?	Not possible. The object is held in a museum where it is not possible to photograph it at this angle.
Other information	Image was created for scientific purposes, not commercial use. Every attempt was made not to be creative, but to record the object as accurately as possible. That is, the photo may qualify as Public Domain due to an intentional lack of originality.

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current	20:55, 8 May 2008	612×80 (7 KB)	Kwamikagami (Talk \| contribs)	(== Summary == {{Information \|Description=The edge of rongorongo Tablet K, the Small London Tablet, showing line 1 of the verso. \|Source=Museum of Man \|Date=<1860 \|Author=unknown }} {{Non-free fair use in\|Rongorongo}} {{Non-free use rationale \|Descript)