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[edit] Summary

Description: A swastika made up of larch trees in a pine forest in Brandenburg, Germany.
Owner: © Reuters, November 2000.
Source: Duplicated across a number of news sites, see references of article.
Permission: None. Image is copyrighted and used without permission under Fair Use guidelines.

[edit] Licensing

This image is a faithful digitalization of a unique historic photograph, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the photographer who took the photograph or the agency employing the photographer. It is believed that the use of this photograph

to illustrate the event in question where:
The photograph depicts a non-reproducible historic event, and no free alternative exists or can be created, and
The image is low resolution and of no larger and of no higher quality than is necessary for the illustration of an article, and the use of the image on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright,
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. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Fair use for more information.

If this does not accurately describe this image, please remove this tag and provide a different fair use rationale.

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[edit] Rationale

It is believed that the use of this image on the English language Wikipedia to illustrate the article Forest swastika qualifies as Fair Use for the following reasons:

The article in question is about the image produced by this specific arrangement of trees, and discussion cannot be made without reference to the original work.
The image is of lower resolution than the original photograph (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
No free or public domain images have been located for the subject of the article.
Due to the felling of the trees by the German government, no further photographs can be taken as a free-license alternative.
The use of this image does not limit the copyright owners' rights or ability to distribute the photograph in any way.
The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the value of the original photograph or its copyright in any way.

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(del) (cur) 11:26, 9 March 2006 . . GeeJo (Talk | contribs) . . 212×168 (16,258 bytes) (Remove reuters tag.)
(del) (rev) 11:24, 9 March 2006 . . GeeJo (Talk | contribs) . . 220×168 (14,231 bytes) (Zoom out a bit to place in context.)
(del) (rev) 11:04, 9 March 2006 . . GeeJo (Talk | contribs) . . 300×180 (13,559 bytes) (Image © Reuters, Berlin. It is believed that this image can be shown under fair-use guidelines in the English Wikipedia for the following reasons. 1. The article in question is about an image, and discussion cannot be made without reference to the or)