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1 Summary
2 Licensing
3 Fair use image data
4 Fair use rationale

[edit] Summary

Found at the store's website (direct link to image; it has been converted from GIF to PNG), this is the current logo for Michaels. This image is copyright Michaels, and hence is not free. However, it is used under fair use as described below:

[edit] Licensing

This is a commercial logo of a corporate, private, or other retail entity, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of logos

to illustrate the corporation, private business, or other retail entity 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. 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:Fair use and Wikipedia:Logos.

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

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair use image data

Non-free image data
Description	Logo of Michaels .
Source	http://www.michaels.com/
Portion used	Whole logo used to avoid misrepresenting image.
Low resolution?	Logo was selected in order to maintain the quality intended, without being unnecessarily high resolution.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by Michaels.

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free image rationale for Michaels
Article	Michaels
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of this article topic.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright and trademark, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	23:18, 20 March 2008	164×46 (8 KB)	Wcquidditch (Talk \| contribs)	(== Summary == Found at [http://www.michaels.com/ the store's website] ([http://www.michaels.com/online/departments/headerfooter/images/logo.gif direct link to image]; it has been converted from GIF to PNG), this is the current logo for Michaels. This)