Image:Stamp CA 1973 8c Xmas.jpg

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[edit] Licensing

This image is of a postage stamp issued by Canada Post. The copyright for it is owned by Canada Post, and there may be other restrictions on its reproduction. It is believed that the use of postage stamps

to illustrate the stamp in question (as opposed to things appearing in the stamp's design)
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. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair use image data

Non-free image data
Description	Canada 8c Christmas stamp of 1973 .
Source	scanned by User:Stan Shebs
Portion used	Entire stamp.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by the issuing postal authority.

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free image rationale for Christmas stamp
Article	Christmas stamp
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist. There is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.

Non-free image rationale for Postage stamp design
Article	Postage stamp design
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist. There is no possible commercial disadvantage to the copyright holder by using this image of a stamp in a Wikipedia article because the stamp's value is in the physical stamp, not the design.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:26, 5 December 2004	400×497 (69 KB)	Stan Shebs (Talk \| contribs)	(Canada 8c Christmas stamp of 1973, scanned by User:Stan Shebs {{GFDL}})