File:Fedcologo.jpg

Non-free media use rationale – logo – for Fedco[edit]

Logo of the defunct Fedco department store chain.

Source: http://www.roadsidepeek.com/retrolook/bygoneretail/

I found the photo on RoadsidePeek.com, which asserts a copyright to the photo. Fair use is asserted because:

1. The photo is of a sign comprising the store's logo. The logo copyright, and the copyright in the other design elements of the sign, belongs to the nonprofit Fedco store chain and not to the taker of the photo. The photo's content, I assert, does not contain any copyrightable content other than the copyrighted design of the sign and the copyrighted logo.
2. Logos are considered to be fair use on Wikipedia.
3. Therefore, the use of this photo is a fair use under US law.
4. This may be beside the point, but the store chain is defunct and it's no longer possible to take a photo of the store signs.

Licensing[edit]

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. 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 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. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos. Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fedcologo.jpg true

To the uploader: 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. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag is only for use on images of logos. Template:Non-free use rationale logo may be helpful for stating the rationale. Please do not use this template to tag non-free icons of computer software. Such items should be tagged with {{Non-free computer icon}} template. Regarding uses other than in the original article: Check the non-free use criteria and do not assume that existing rationales can be simply copied and pasted, as they may not necessarily apply. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.