Image:Black Flag Police Story sticker.jpg

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[edit] Summary

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Black Flag (band)
Description

This is a sticker produced by the band Black Flag in the early 1980s to promote their "Police Story" single. The artwork, created by Raymond Pettibon, was also used in flyers to promote the band's shows.
Source

The specific image here was obtained from shavedneck.com and then cropped to show the desired sticker. The original source for the image, however, is the sticker itself which was produced in the early 1980s. The image can also be found reproduced in the book Get in the Van by Henry Rollins, the band's singer (second edition, page 31, ISBN 1880985764).
Article

Black Flag (band)
Portion used

Full: The image is used in full in order to illustrate the full significance of the work.
Low resolution?

Yes, the image is of significantly lower resolution than its original source, and is of insufficient resolution to produce illegal copies of the artwork.
Purpose of use

The image is used to illustrate a section of referenced critical commentary in the article about the band's visual and artistic style, specifically a paragaph about Pettibon's artwork and its use in the band's promotional materials. There is also referenced commentary about this specific image itself. Use of the image in this way illustrates its intended message in a way that words alone could not convey.
Replaceable?

None, as the artwork is copyrighted it cannot be replaced by a free equivalent.

[edit] Licensing

Copyrighted This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters
  • to provide critical commentary on the film, event, etc. in question or of the poster itself, not solely for illustration
  • 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, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

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Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi