Image:Cedar Badge prior to 2005 no coin.png

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[edit] Summary

A retouched and coinless version of Image:Cedar_Badge_prior_to_2005.jpeg

[edit] Licensing

This is a logo of a Scouting organization, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the exhibition of low-resolution images of Scouting logos

to illustrate the Scouting organization 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. 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 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:Fair use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Cedar Badge
Description	a logo of Grand Teton Council, BSA
Source	scan
Article	Cedar Badge
Portion used	The entire work illustrated is covered by this rationale
Low resolution?	Less than 300px wide
Purpose of use	Illustrate points of Cedar Badge
Replaceable?	Not replaceable; all derivatives would be subject to the same copyrights
Other information	Permission to use all images of BSA badges with their motifs in Wikipedia was obtained from the BSA on 13 Dec 2005 This is copyrighted material of the Boy Scouts of America; all rights are reserved by the BSA BSA images are only being used in Wikipedia articles for informational and educational purposes. The image's inclusion here will not result in financial loss to the copyright holder

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. This applies worldwide.

In case this is not legally possible,

I grant any entity the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.

[edit] Fair use in Cedar Badge

While the Cedar Badge logo is copyrighted, I believe its use in this image qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law because:

It is of low resolution
It is used for the educational purpose of illustrating how the old patches look
The image of the penny is public domain, and the artistic positioning of the image is released into the public domain.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:53, 18 April 2008	139×121 (8 KB)	Atyndall (Talk \| contribs)	({{NoCoins \| {{convert\|19\|mm\|in}} }} == Summary == A retouched and coinless version of Image:Cedar_Badge_prior_to_2005.jpeg == Licensing == {{Non-free Scoutlogo\|BSAC}} {{Non-free media rationale \|Description= a logo of Grand Teton Council, BSA \|Sou)