File:Jeff Wall Mimic.jpg

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This low resolution image is used in Jeff Wall, an article about the artist and his work, and is credited as a piece of artistic work. It is considered necessary for a proper understanding of the artist's creativity to be able to see this example of work. It is considered that this will not cause commercial harm to the original author. It is believed that this is fair use and does not infringe copyright. There is no known free alternative available.

According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 :

The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.[1]

The image is used for non-profit purposes. This factor is noted as relevant by the Act.

Non-free media rationale for Mimic (photograph)
Article	Mimic (photograph)
Purpose of use	For visual identification of the object of the article. The article as a whole is dedicated specifically to a discussion of this work.
Replaceable?	Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.

Non-free media rationale for Jeff Wall
Article	Jeff Wall
Purpose of use	Discussion of this particular work by Jeff Wall as a key work of Wall in the context of his body of work.
Replaceable?	As all of the works by Jeff Wall are under copyright, it would not be possible to get a free version of one of these works.

Non-free media rationale for Vancouver School
Article	Vancouver School
Purpose of use	Discussion of this particular work by Jeff Wall as an exemplar in the context of the Vancouver School.
Replaceable?	As all of the works by Jeff Wall are under copyright, it would not be possible to get a free version of one of these works.

This image represents a two-dimensional work of art, such as a drawing, painting, print, or similar creation. The copyright for this image is likely owned by either the artist who created it, the individual who commissioned the work, or their legal heirs. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of artworks:

for purposes of critical commentary on:
- the specific work in question,
- the artistic genre or technique employed in the artwork, or
- the artistic school or tradition to which the artist is associated,
as applied within the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers located in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law.

Any other use of this image, whether on Wikipedia or elsewhere, could potentially constitute a copyright infringement. For further information, please refer to Wikipedia's guidelines on non-free content.
Fair use

This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). Fair use

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:02, 26 October 2024		337 × 296 (84 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	01:30, 25 October 2024	No thumbnail	1,620 × 1,420 (238 KB)	HTGS (talk \| contribs)	Greater color and tonal accuracy and less crop; scaling down from this image should still result in a higher quality output
	01:56, 15 July 2017	No thumbnail	340 × 293 (22 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	02:34, 5 June 2009	No thumbnail	500 × 431 (190 KB)	Freshacconci (talk \| contribs)	This low resolution image is used in Jeff Wall, an article about the artist and his work, and is credited as a piece of artistic work. It is considered necessary for a proper understanding of the artist's creativity to be able to see this example of w

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