Image:Las Vegas, NV Metropolitan Police.jpg

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Non-free / fair use media rationale - non-free logo for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Description

This is a logo for Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Source

The logo may be obtained from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Article

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Portion used

The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.

Low resolution?

The logo is a size and resolution sufficient to maintain the quality intended by the company or organization, without being unnecessarily high resolution.

Purpose of use

The image is used to identify the following notable public facility: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify a facility (such as a road, airport, station, city, neighborhood, or the like), and assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the facility.

Replaceable?

Because it is a logo there is almost certainly no free equivalent. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Other information Use of the logo in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy, logo guidelines, and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police patch From the collection of Defiant15E

[edit] Fair use in Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Though this image is subject to copyright, I, Defiant15E feel its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has released the image to be worn by its staff amoung the population.
  2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to distribute or market the logo/image in any way.
  3. It is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.

[edit] Licensing

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current16:26, 6 March 2008268×305 (14 KB)Defiant15E (Talk | contribs) (The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police patch From the collection of Defiant15E {{ Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because: )

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