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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 "Roy Lichtenstein" :

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.

[edit] Fair use rationale

This image is claimed to be used under fair use as:

it is a photo of a historically significant, now deceased, individual;
it is of low resolution (copies made from it will be of inferior quality)
the photo is only being used for informational purposes.
its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article, as it is an image featuring the subject of the article, and the only such image included in the article.

[edit] Source

~~From [2], the arts and entertainment section of Guardian Unlimited.~~ Re-upload higher resolution: From [3], the website of "Marc Selwyn Fine Art". It is part of "Robert Mapplethorpe Curated By David Hockney", an exhibition of around 60 portraits, still lives and nudes, taken between 1975 and 1988, by the American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. [4] states that they are "© Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation"([5]).

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current	00:19, 27 February 2007	500×506 (34 KB)	Plrk (Talk \| contribs)
	23:21, 26 February 2007	300×300 (19 KB)	Plrk (Talk \| contribs)	({{Fair use in\|Roy Lichtenstein}} Image contributes significantly to the article on the image's subject, Roy Lichtenstein. He has been dead for almost ten years and no free images are known.)