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The standard of the Governor-General of Ceylon.

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[edit] Fair use rationale of Governor-General of Ceylon and List of Sri Lankan flags

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It is one or perhaps only visual identification of the a post that has been abolished.
It is one of the Viceregal flags used in Ceylon.
It illustrates educational articles about the subject represented by the image.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value. A free image could not be created to replace it without itself being a derivative work

Nitraven (talk) 17:02, 19 May 2008 (UTC)