File:Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad logo.png
Bessemer_and_Lake_Erie_Railroad_logo.png (175 × 175 pixels, file size: 5 KB, MIME type: image/png)
Fair use in Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad[edit]
| Description |
B&LE logo (Owned by CN) |
|---|---|
| Source | |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. |
| Low resolution? |
The logo is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution. |
| Purpose of use |
The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the reader they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. |
| Replaceable? |
Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary. |
| Other information |
Heralds are "logos" or "slogans" used by railroad companies and displayed on their equipment. Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks. ... However, copyright protection may be available for logo artwork that contains sufficient authorship. In some circumstances, an artistic logo may also be protected as a trademark." Excerpt from http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-protect.html Use of such images on Wikipedia arguably meets Fair Use requirements. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bessemer_and_Lake_Erie_Railroad_logo.pngtrue | |
 | This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. The use of low-resolution images on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, of logos for certain uses involving identification and critical commentary may qualify as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos.
Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. |
History of File:B&LE.gif[edit]
- 2008-01-03T04:20:01Z Dp67 (Talk | contribs) (1875 bytes) (Fix rational to avoid deletion)
- 2008-01-03T04:19:11Z Dp67 (Talk | contribs) (1854 bytes) (Fix rational to avoid deletion)
- 2007-09-07T10:51:13Z Slambo (Talk | contribs) (473 bytes) (Fair use rationale)
- 2007-04-23T14:52:51Z Cydebot (Talk | contribs) (103 bytes) (Robot - Renaming non-free template "logo" per [[Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates]].)
- 2005-04-27T06:06:48Z MrHudson (Talk | contribs) (B&LE logo, copyrighted, assumed fair use. Not GFDL. Created from existing images. {{logo}})
- 2005-04-27T06:06:48Z MrHudson (Talk | contribs) (175x175) (4894 bytes)
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| current | 08:33, 15 December 2008 |  | 175 × 175 (5 KB) | 718 Bot (talk | contribs) | == Fair use in Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad == {{Non-free use rationale | Description = B&LE logo (Owned by CN) | Source = http://www.cn.ca | Article = Bessemer and Lake Erie Railroad | Portion = The entire log |
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