File:"Subways Are for Sleeping" hoax ad.jpg
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Summary[edit]
| Description | This advertisement for the musical comedy Subways Are for Sleeping was published in the New York Herald Tribune, in 1962. The 7 individuals whose opinions are cited have names that, by pure coincidence, were also the names of high-profile theatre critics in 1962. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
David Merrick |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/subways_are_for_sleeping (New York Herald Tribune, January 4, 1962) |
| Date of publication | January 4, 1962 |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Subways Are for Sleeping |
| 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): David Merrick produced a hoax advertisement for the then-unsuccessful play "Subways Are for Sleeping", which quoted several people who all had the same names as theatre critics of the day; although the deception was discovered almost immediately, the resulting publicity made the play a moderate success. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
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| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This image is used only in the article on Subways Are for Sleeping (SAfS), to illustrate the hoax ad that was integral to SAfS's success. Furthermore, the image has been reduced in size. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
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| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Subways Are for Sleeping//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%22Subways_Are_for_Sleeping%22_hoax_ad.jpgtrue | |
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 | This image is of a poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher or the creator of the work depicted. It is believed that the use of scaled-down, low-resolution images of posters
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