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This image shows the Spinal Tap logo from the 1984 "rockumentary" parody This Is Spinal Tap in which Rob Reiner acted and directed. The film's publicity introduced the heavy metal umlaut above a consonant.

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[edit] Provenance

Scanned from the DVD cover by David Gerard.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Heavy metal umlaut

1. For an article about the use of a special diacritical mark, it is important to provide examples of band logos so that people can see how it is used. This is particularly important for Spinal Tap, since no known languages put an umlaut over an N.
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this film.
3. The image is of lower resolution than the original DVD cover (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
4. The logo is to suggest the style and usage of an unusual use of Heavy metal umlaut.
5. The logo is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original film in any way.
6. Posters and other images from the mockumentary are used on various websites, and its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
7. The logo's use on Wikipedia is entirely encyclopedic in nature.

[edit] License

Claiming fair use for Heavy metal umlaut (does not detract from original work, scanned from legal copy, image is of sufficiently low resolution).

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos. This tag must have an accompanying fair use rationale which must be unique to the usage of THIS image in each article in which it is used. You must also give the source and copyright information for all fair-use images uploaded. Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.

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