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Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description Logo of Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre. New in December 2023
Author or
copyright owner
Source (WP:NFCC#4) https://www.hmgcc.gov.uk/
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) HM Government Communications Centre
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question.
Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)		 Any derivative work based upon the logo would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) It will only be used in the article aforementioned
Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)		 The use of a low resolution image of an organization's logo in the article about that organization will not impact the commercial viability of the logo.
Other information
Copyrighted
This work is protected by the British Crown copyright. Limitations on its distribution are defined at the original site of publication, and are not altered by its reproduction here. Those terms may include, but may not be limited to, its reproduction being accurate, free of charge in any format or medium, and not used in a misleading context. The source of the material must be identified and the copyright status acknowledged. HMSO has explicitly stated in official correspondence that material under Crown Copyright may not be relicensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence.

Thus, this is a non-free licence for the purpose of Wikipedia, as modification is not permitted. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

  • To illustrate the object in question
  • Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
  • on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair 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 for more information.

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To the uploader:
  1. Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
  2. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
  3. This tag should only be used for Crown copyright images. Do not use it for images by others.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of HM Government Communications Centre//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HMGCC_Logo_Black.svgtrue

Licensing

Copyrighted
This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information.

Attention
To the uploader:
  1. Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
  2. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
  3. This tag should only be used for seals. Do not use it for other purposes.
To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.
This file will not be in the public domain in both its home country and the United States until January 1, 2074 and should not be transferred to Wikimedia Commons until that date, as Commons requires that images be free in the source country and in the United States.

As a work of the United Kingdom government, the copyright will expire worldwide on 1 January 2074, 50 years after it was published in December 2023.

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current06:30, 13 January 2024Thumbnail for version as of 06:30, 13 January 2024512 × 165 (19 KB)imagesenwiki>FordneyPachelbelUploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

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