File:HMAS Stirling.png

Summary

The image is of the ship badge for HMAS Stirling, a facility of the Royal Australian Navy. The ship badge is a logo used to represent the facility, and applies to all active or previous units bearing the name. The original location of the image is unknown, but it can be sourced from http://www.navy.gov.au/w/index.php/HMAS_Stirling

Fair use rationales

As several Australian warships may have used this name and ship badge over history, the image will likely be used in multiple articles. A fair use rationale should be provided for each article.

Non-free media information and use rationale true for HMAS Stirling
Description	The ship badge of Australian naval base HMAS Stirling
Source	Sourced from the website of the copyright holder, the Royal Australian Navy, at http://www.navy.gov.au/w/index.php/HMAS_Stirling
Article	HMAS Stirling
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 used to identify the facility bearing the name HMAS Stirling. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the facility, inform the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the facility, and provide visual information about the facility's badge and motto, which may be the subject of critical commentary
Replaceable?	The image is protected by copyright and other restrictions including article 6ter of the Paris Convention, therefore a free use alternative won't exist
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of HMAS Stirling//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMAS_Stirling.pngtrue

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 not 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 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. See Wikipedia:Non-free content.
Fair use

History of Image:HMAS Stirling.gif

2008-08-30T07:43:51Z Saberwyn (Talk | contribs) (2010 bytes) (standardise Ran badges)
2007-10-12T02:54:00Z Jez 14 (Talk | contribs) (697 bytes) (Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because: It illustrates an educational article about HMAS Stirling. The image is used as a m)