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[edit] Copyright

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 "Falun Gong":

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 ([1]), hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

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.

CopyRight by NTDTV . GIF made by the author using un-modified stills from from a "No Rights Reserved" video titled : "A STAGED TRAGEDY: Self-Immolation in Tiananmen Square-- Analysis of CCTV’s Video Tape of January 23, 2001" published by NTDTV.

[edit] In Reply to Copyright issue raised

CCTV didn't claim any ownershiprights/copyrights on the video - CCTV's claim was that the Video was taken by CNN. The International Department of CNN stated that CNN did not film anything because at the very beginning of the incident, CNN reporters were arrested and their equipment confiscated.

The movie "False Fire: China's Tragic New Standard in State Deception" which analyzes the 2001 Tiananmen Square "self-immolation" incident, won a Certificate of Honorable Mention at the 51st Columbus International Film & Video Festival. The video has been staged at several Video festivals and events and the issue of copyrights have never been raised.

1.CCTV didn't claim any ownershiprights/copyrights on the video - CCTV's claim was that the Video was taken by CNN. The International Department of CNN stated that CNN did not film anything because at the very beginning of the incident, CNN reporters were arrested and their equipment confiscated.

2. Even if the CCTV had claimed owneship rights on the video,

According to US law Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107, there are 4 factors:

  1). the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
  (This image is not for commercial)
  2). the nature of the copyrighted work;
  (The source is from Television news program, which has already been broadcasted to the public multiple times.)
  3). the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; 
  (the image is only several seconds of original work.  If we use the whole video or sustantial portion of it, then it may not consititude fair use.)
  4). the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
  (Considering 2, and 3 above, there's not much effect upon the market value of original work since the original work is not for commercial purpose.)

So based on US law the use of image constitudes the fair use. (more sample cases can be found at http://fairuse.stanford.edu/Copyright_and_Fair_Use_Overview/chapter9/9-c.html)

[edit] Related video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLfZtHA7hSI, time of this sequence is starting at 2 min 45 seconds, of this movie

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(del) (cur) 18:28, 29 May 2006 . . Dilip rajeev (Talk | contribs) . . 200×150 (298,580 bytes)
(del) (rev) 18:21, 29 May 2006 . . Dilip rajeev (Talk | contribs) . . 200×150 (298,580 bytes)
(del) (rev) 18:37, 18 February 2006 . . Dilip rajeev (Talk | contribs) . . 200×150 (298,580 bytes) (Part of Non Copyrighted Video file from http://www.faluninfo.net/tiananmen/immolation.asp)