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[edit] Licensing

This is a representation of a government, military, regimental, family, or other symbol such as a flag, seal, emblem, coat of arms or crest. This symbol may be copyrighted by its holder. As well, it is known that the representation of this symbol is either copyrighted by the holder of the symbol, or is available under a free licence. There may also be other restrictions on reproduction, including but not limited to article 6ter of the Paris Convention. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such symbols

to illustrate the symbol in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. As well, if this image is available under a free licence, please also add the appropriate free licence tag.

I believe this image comes from http://www.bnc.ox.ac.uk/. As an image of a coat of arms it qualifies for Fair Use if it is used to represent the institution to which it belongs (Brasenose College, Oxford) and to illustrate its historic coat of arms. Copyright in this specific representation resides in the college.--Alf ^melmac 09:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use for Brasenose College, Oxford

The image linked here is claimed to be used under fair use because:

it is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
it is only being used as an illustration of the symbol in question.
it is used on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.