Image:Trans-Canada Highway shield.svg

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Trans-Canada_Highway_shield.svg‎ (SVG file, nominally 442 × 600 pixels, file size: 18 KB)

Non-free / fair use media rationale - non-free logo for Trans-Canada Highway
Description

This is a logo owned by the Government of Canada for Trans-Canada Highway.
Source

The logo may be obtained from the Government of Canada.
Article

Trans-Canada Highway
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 placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing Trans-Canada Highway, a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey.
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.

This rationale also applies to the infoboxes of the following articles about roads in Ontario and Quebec that form part of the Trans-Canada Highway, since the TCH shield is placed alongside the other shield on the road, rather than the number being inside the maple leaf. It does not apply to any other uses, including junction lists.

This logo was first published in the first edition of the Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Canada in 1959. It will fall out of copyright in approximately 2009 (see Template:PD-Canada). This exact image representation was made by commons:User:Makaristos and released into the public domain.

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.

This tag must have an accompanying fair use rationale which must be unique to the usage of THIS image in each article in which it is used. You must also give the source and copyright information for all fair-use images uploaded.

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

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