File:Title page of Tianshu (A Book from the Sky) by Xu Bing.jpg

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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	This is the title page of A Book from the Sky (1988) by Xu Bing (b. 1955), an example of asemic writing in the style of Chinese text.
Author or copyright owner	Xu Bing
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Scaled down version of a Wikimedia Commons file downloaded prior to its deletion. The deletion request for the original file is available here.
Date of publication	1988
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	A Book from the Sky
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Any derivative work based upon the cover art would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	This image's size and resolution is sufficient enough to provide identification of the work, but the low resolution would make it unsuitable for stolen versions and reproduction/replication elsewhere.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution image of a work's cover will not impact the commercial viability of the work.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of A Book from the Sky//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Title_page_of_Tianshu_(A_Book_from_the_Sky)_by_Xu_Bing.jpgtrue

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Asemic writing
Description	This is the title page of A Book from the Sky (1988) by Xu Bing (b. 1955), an example of asemic writing in the style of Chinese text.
Source	Scaled down version of a Wikimedia Commons file downloaded prior to its deletion. The deletion request for the original file is available here.
Article	Asemic writing
Portion used	Title page only
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	To illustrate an example of asemic writing that incorporates valid Chinese radicals but has no meaning in Chinese.
Replaceable?	Any derivative work based upon the title page would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Other information	The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Asemic writing//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Title_page_of_Tianshu_(A_Book_from_the_Sky)_by_Xu_Bing.jpgtrue

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File change date and time	17:03, 25 February 2024
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Unique ID of original document	7A8B8F8CD5FFF84BB8D90F0B8D47440C
Date and time of digitizing	10:29, 19 February 2021
Date metadata was last modified	09:03, 25 February 2024