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1 Summary
2 Fair use rationale
- 2.1 Fair use for Necronom IV
3 Licensing

[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:

It is a very significant image of H. R. Giger's work
It is lower resolution than the original
The image is only being used for informational purposes
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
The material has previously been published;
The material can be considered encyclopedic and otherwise meets general Wikipedia content requirements

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

[edit] Licensing

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:Fair use 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.

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket fair use categories listed at Wikipedia:Fair use#Images or Wikipedia:Fair use#Audio_clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Necronom IV":

To illustrate the object in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia ([2]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([3]),

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:Fair use 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 fair use rationale.

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(del) (cur) 08:52, 10 December 2006 . . Grandpafootsoldier (Talk | contribs) . . 680×435 (124,060 bytes) (== 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)
(del) (rev) 08:46, 10 December 2006 . . Grandpafootsoldier (Talk | contribs) . . 716×458 (326,810 bytes) (== 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)