Image:FSU Seal centered.png

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Summary

Non-free / fair use media rationale - non-free logo for Florida State University Panama City
Description

This is a logo for Florida State University Panama City.
Source

The logo is from the http://www.fsu.edu/ website.
Article

Florida State University Panama City
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 Florida State University Panama City, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that 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 Use of the logo in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy, logo guidelines, and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

This is a current seal for Florida State University.

[edit] Method

This is a transparent background PNG file created from FSU Seal centered.jpg in Photoshop.

[edit] Fair use for FSU Seal

This image, FSU Seal centered.png, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (UkrNole 485) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights;
  2. It is properly displayed to represent the Florida State University.
  3. The vector is losslessly converted from a file availible from the University's website.
  4. Being previously published, it does not indicate the company's endorsement of Wikipedia.
  5. The appropriate page [i.e. this page] includes a copyright tag (below), a source (above) and a fair use rationale (center; this passage).
The use of this image in the article(s) Florida State University and Florida State University Panama City was reviewed by Jerm (Talk/ Contrib) 01:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC) on 01:29, 30 November 2007 (UTC) and deemed likely to qualify as fair use, as it is believed to meet all criteria as described in Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. This image's use on other pages or in different contexts may require additional review.

[edit] Licensing

Copyrighted This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that 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 fair use under United States copyright law. 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.

This tag must have an accompanying fair use rationale which must be unique to the usage of THIS image in each article in which it is used. You must also give the source and copyright information for all fair-use images uploaded.

Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.

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current05:41, 27 April 2008300×300 (30 KB)Melesse (Talk | contribs) (fair use reduce)

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