Rights record pending
Not on displayCharlie Bit My Finger
First outbreak 2007Not yet registered
Home video involving minors; a rights holder, evidence grade, and display tier are still required.
Museum / Other exhibits
The wing without photographs.
Fourteen influential specimens, catalogued by name and held behind the rights register. Each original line-art mark documents an absence by design—not an unfinished display.
Display advisory
Photos are intentionally not displayed pending rights clearance.
Do not add the photos back. Every exhibit remains in this no-photo treatment until its individual rights record is cleared.
14 specimens / 0 photos
Specimen cases
Other exhibits
Rights status governs the collection
rather than visual familiarity.
Rights register M19
Not on displayRickroll
First outbreak 2007Never pursue
Commercial music video. Reference by name only; no image, thumbnail, or video excerpt.
Rights record pending
Not on displayDancing Baby
First outbreak 1996Not yet registered
Preceding modern meme-rights case law; display treatment remains unverified.
Rights register M13
Not on displayTrollface
First outbreak 2008Licence only
An original drawing with an identified creator; it is not public-domain clip art.
Rights register M10
Not on displayBad Luck Brian
First outbreak 2012Never pursue
School-portrait ownership is unresolved; do not assume the subject controls the image.
Rights register M03
Not on displaySuccess Kid
First outbreak 2007Never pursue
A copyrighted infant photograph with licensing and likeness considerations.
Rights register M06
Not on displayKeyboard Cat
First outbreak 2007Licence only
Copyrighted footage whose underlying recording predates the internet meme.
Rights record pending
Not on displayLOLCats
First outbreak 2006Not yet registered
The captioned-cat-photo genre needs its own register record; it is not equivalent to Grumpy Cat.
Rights register M05
Not on displayNyan Cat
First outbreak 2011Licence only
An original animated GIF with a reachable copyright owner and established licensing history.
Rights register M09
Not on displayOverly Attached Girlfriend
First outbreak 2012Never pursue
A self-produced video still that remains an identifiable-person work.
Rights register M23
Not on displayAll Your Base
First outbreak 2001Never pursue
The phrase may be short, but the familiar game screenshot is still protected.
Rights register M01
Not on displayDoge
First outbreak 2013Licence only
A photograph by an identified creator, not a public-domain internet image.
Rights record pending
Not on displayHarlem Shake
First outbreak 2013Not yet registered
A composite rights case involving commercial music and user-submitted video.
Rights register M02
Not on displayGrumpy Cat
First outbreak 2012Never pursue
A photographed animal with registered marks and a documented enforcement history.
Sources & treatment
Rights statuses, display constraints, and registered-specimen notes are drawn from the Memeography source package and rights register. This gallery preserves its citation trail while showing no real archival images.