Image:Co-oplogo.png

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[edit] Summary

Former logo of the Co-operative Group (CWS) Limited. New Century House, Manchester. M60 4ES. The logo remains in use as a common symbol of the wider consumer co-operative movement in the United Kingdom

[edit] Licensing

Copyrighted This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that 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 fair use under United States copyright law. 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.

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Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa.

The exhibition of low-resolution images of logos, to illustrate the subject 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. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell product or said image. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would serve the same encyclopedic purpose. The further use of this image on Wikipedia is not believed to disadvantage the copyright holder in any way

Use in the articles about corporate members of the CWS, is believed to be fair, within the meaning of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 s.30 (1988 cap.48) in the United Kingdom and the Copyright Act of 1976, 17 U.S.C. § 107 (Pub.L. 94-553) in the United States. Purpose is to illustrate and identify an article about a co-operative which, being a corporate member of The Co-operative Group (CWS) Ltd., and member of the Co-operative Retail Trading Group (CRTG), is a licensee of the logo, and used, or continues to use, the logo to identify itself:

Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Co-operative brand
Description

Common branding for UK Consumer Co-operatives
Source

CWS Ltd.
Article

The Co-operative brand
Portion used

Is whole logo (in low res), but use of logo here does not allow any business to brand itself as a co-operative without signing up to the CRTG common branding scheme and so should not affect the CRTG's service.
Low resolution?

The logo is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the organisation, without being unnecessarily high resolution
Purpose of use

To show the logo on an article about the logo
Replaceable?

Non-copyright protected version of logo does not exist
Other information Being used to illustrate the logo in an article about its history and use. Non-copyright version, by its nature, does not exist. Use of logo here does not allow any business to brand itself as a co-operative without signing up to the CRTG common branding scheme and so should not affect the CRTG's service.

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current01:44, 28 January 2006370×380 (4 KB)J Darnley (Talk | contribs) (UK Co-op logo, claiming fair use. Derived from :Image:Co-oplogo.jpg)