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[edit] Summary

Swiss painter and sculptor H. R. Giger’s 1976 painting Necronom IV which would form the basis for the later "Alien" design used in all aspects (film, video game, print) of the Alien franchise.

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[edit] Fair use rationale

[edit] Fair use for Necronom IV

The image uploaded here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

  1. It is a very significant image of H. R. Giger's work
  2. It is lower resolution than the original
  3. The image is only being used for informational purposes
  4. Its inclusion in this article adds significantly to its content as it shows the subject of this article (or subsection of article) and is significant to the public and the artist who created it
  5. The material has previously been published;
  6. The material can be considered encyclopedic and otherwise meets general Wikipedia content requirements

--Grandpafootsoldier 08:46, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Licensing

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Copyrighted 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 "Necronom IV" :
  • 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]),

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current08:52, 10 December 2006680×435 (121 KB)Grandpafootsoldier (Talk | contribs) (== Summary == Swiss painter and sculptor H. R. Giger’s 1976 painting ''Necronom IV'' which would form the basis for the later "Alien'' design used in all aspects (film, video game, print) of the '' Alien)
08:46, 10 December 2006716×458 (319 KB)Grandpafootsoldier (Talk | contribs) (== Summary == Swiss painter and sculptor H. R. Giger’s 1976 painting ''Necronom IV'' which would form the basis for the later "Alien'' design used in all aspects (film, video game, print) of the '' Alien)

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