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Description

Well-known Standard Test Image "Lenna"

Source

The USC-SIPI image database

Date

"June or July of 1973"[1]

Author

Original full portrait: "Playmate of the Month". Playboy Magazine. November 1972, photographed by Dwight Hooker.
This 512x512 electronic/mechanical scan of a section of the full portrait: Alexander Sawchuk and two others[1] Permission = Use of this 512x512 scan is "overlooked" and by implication permitted by Playboy.[2]
Alexander Sawchuk et al scanned the image and cropped it specifically for distribution for use by image compression researchers, and hold no copyright on it.[1]

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(Reusing this file)

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This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:
  • To illustrate the subject in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • 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. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

Non-free use for Lenna

The image is used in the context of that article to illustrate the subject of that article. The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use as:

  1. It is a historically significant photo[2]
  2. This 512x512 scan of a small portion of the original image is of much lower resolution than the Playboy original, and differs greatly in color balance and contrast due to the scanner technology and calibration at the time (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
  3. The photo is only being used for informational purposes
  4. Its inclusion in the article adds significantly to the article because it shows the subject of this article

Also see the Jan 2007 discussion which resulted in a consensus that this and other standard test images do not violate Wikipedia's Fair Use policy, and the 2011 FFD discussion.

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