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File:Flag of San Jose, California.png

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Summary

Description

Flag of the City of San Jose for fair use to illustrate the article about San Jose, California.
Source

City of San Jose website
Date
Author

City of San Jose website
Permission
( Reusing this file)

While the design of the flag is public domain due to age, this drawing by the San Francisco Government is copyrighted.

Licensing:

Copyrighted 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.


Fair use rationale(s)

Non-free media information and use rationale – non-free logo for San Jose, California
Description

This is a logo for San Jose, California.
Source

The logo may be obtained from San Jose, California.
Article

San Jose, California
Portion used

The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.
Low resolution?

yes
Purpose of use

The image is used to identify the following notable public facility: San Jose, California. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify a facility (such as a road, airport, station, city, neighbourhood, or the like), and assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the facility.
Replaceable?

Because it is a non-free logo there is almost certainly no free repesentation. 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.
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