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Explanation of why File:Sunday afternoon with Lt Pike.jpg, is, in all likelihood, covered under the fair use statutes

This image was included in a blog post published by Bloomberg Businessweek. The author of the post, blogger Mark Gimein, states in the article, "No site seems to cite the original creator of the George Seurat/UC Davis composite (Image: Sunday afternoon with Lt Pike.jpg). We’re hoping he or she will step forward to get credit."

Many of the these images have been created since the UC Davis pepper-spray incident, and quite a large number have been published, by their creators, without attaching their names to the images. I would think that a publication such as Businessweek takes the job of properly citing all sources and images very seriously; that if they publish a disclaimer that states they cannot determine the author, then it seems that it is the sole responsibility of the author to step forward and claim their work. And that if they don't, they are tacitly allowing such an image to be used without expectation of compensation or credit. Furthermore, in most of these cases, authors of such work publish images on the Internet for the sole purpose of hoping they do go viral.

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Non-free rationale for File:Pepper spraying cop meme.jpeg

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