File:Duckroll meme.png

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Summary

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description Meme image known as "duckroll", used by 4chan users in a bait-and-switch joke called "duckrolling", which was created in 2006 and inspired the creation of the rickroll in 2007.
Author or
copyright owner 		Unknown 4chan user
Source (WP:NFCC#4) https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/an-oral-history-of-rickrolling
Date of publication 2006
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Rickrolling
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) To support encyclopedic discussion of this work in this article. The illustration is specifically needed to support the following point(s):

The article on rickrolling describes duckrolling as the direct predecessor of the phenomenon. This is the specific image used in the meme.

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1) 		Any derivative work based upon the artwork would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) Low-resolution version of the image. Only for use in the Rickrolling article.
Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) 		This image was created for a meme shared by internet users, rather than for commercial use. The creator has not identified themselves to license it.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Rickrolling//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duckroll_meme.pngtrue

Licensing

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Copyrighted
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.

Attention
To the uploader:
  1. 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.
  2. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.