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This may perhaps be a tricky call. This is an image of a painting that appears in MOBA, the Museum of Bad Art. The copyright technically belongs to Susan Lawlor, but the image was used by MOBA for years as an orphan artwork.

As perhaps the best known work in the museum covered in the article, presumed fair use as a low resolution version to illustrate the article Museum of Bad Art

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 "Museum of Bad Art" :

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.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

This image is of a drawing, painting, print, or other two-dimensional work of art, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the artist who produced the image, the person who commissioned the work, or the heirs thereof. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of works of art

for critical commentary on
- the work in question,
- the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or
- the school to which the artist belongs
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:Non-free content 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.

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current	21:41, 5 September 2005	268×351 (37 KB)	Sdedeo (Talk \| contribs)	(This may perhaps be a tricky call. This is an image of a painting that appears in MOBA, the Museum of Bad Art. The copyright technically belongs to Susan Lawlor, but the image was used by MOBA for years as an orphan artwork.)