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Description	A Seagate external USB hard drive box, to show the use of SI prefixes in hard drive capacity marketing ("160 GB" for a disk that can hold 160,041,885,696 bytes).
Source	Taken by User:Omegatron using a Canon Powershot SD110
Date	2007-04-12
Author	User:Omegatron
Permission (Reusing this image)	I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license versions 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0. You may select the license of your choice.

All of these images are derived from the same physical hard drive:

Gnome's partition editor with "149.05 GiB"

Linux's fdisk with "160.0 GB"

[edit] Permission

Like a photograph of a billboard, I believe that this is not considered a derivative work of the copyrighted box artwork,[1] and release it under my usual copyleft licenses:

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license versions 3.0, 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0. You may select the license of your choice.

If this is not legally possible, I assert that this is fair use in the article on Binary prefixes.

This image is of a branded product cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the company responsible of marketing the product in question or the manufacturer which produced either the cover or product itself. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of branded product covers to illustrate the product or brand in question 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, might 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.

[edit] Fair use in Binary prefix

• This product photograph succinctly shows the seemingly inconsistent decimal and binary measurements of hard disk capacity, in this case, that consumer hard disk capacity is marketed with prominent decimal units. This is after class action lawsuits that challenged this labeling.
• This image shows the problem in the context of actual box artwork that a non-technical reader is likely to see.
• The packaging and labeling of consumer products is a significant topic in the Binary prefix article.
• The product and product packaging is typical for external hard disks. It is a "useful article" and not a work of art.
• Using this product photograph does not deprive the copyright holder, Seagate, of any revenue or sales.

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