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The Rank Flag of a Vise Admiral of the Sri Lanka Navy

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

1. It illustrates educational articles about the subject represented by the image.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
3. 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) 17:48, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

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