File:Ushiku.jpg

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Although this image is freely-licensed (Creative Commons), this can only be used under the fair-use provisions on Wikipedia, because it is a photograph of a copyrighted artistic work (a statue which is a 3D artwork) situated in a jurisdiction (Japan) that does not recognise full and unrestricted freedom of panorama for free uses (including commercial uses) of images of copyrighted public artworks.

This work shall remain copyrighted until 70+1 years after the death of the sculptor, and during posthumous copyright duration copyright is held by his heirs or estate.

Wikimedia Commons doesn't accept freely-licensed images of copyrighted public art from countries with no commercial freedom of panorama, like Japan.

This image is a derivative work of separately copyrighted work. It is, therefore, treated on Wikipedia as non-free and each use within an article must satisfy the non-free content criteria. Re-users of this content, in addition to needing a fair use or similar legal claim to use the depiction of the copyrighted work, must also respect the rights of the derivative author by complying with the following terms: I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license: This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/CC-BY-3.0Creative Commons Attribution 3.0truetrue If this image is of an artwork on display in a public location in a jurisdiction that permits freedom of panorama (such as the UK), then please remove {{Photo of art}} tag, placing the photographer's 'free' license in this section of the media description page The original work shown is under the following license: This is a two-dimensional representation of a copyrighted sculpture, statue or any other three-dimensional work of art. As such it is a derivative work of art, and per US Copyright Act of 1976, § 106(2) whoever holds copyright of the original has the exclusive right to authorize derivative works. Per § 107 it is believed that reproduction for criticism, comment, teaching and scholarship constitutes fair use and does not infringe copyright. It is believed that the use of a picture to illustrate the three-dimensional work of art in question, to discuss the artistic genre or technique of the work of art or to discuss the artist 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 the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ushiku.jpg true To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. Template:Non-free use rationale may be helpful for stating the rationale. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template. Fair use true

Do not copy this file to Wikimedia Commons. The subject of this image is still protected by copyright. Commons does not accept 'fair-use' images.

Invalid for {{FoP-USonly}} tag because this is not a building, and English Wikipedia follows U.S. copyright law in which the U.S. FOP is applied for all buildings from no FOP countries, but not public art like sculptures. See also Wikipedia:Freedom of panorama.