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Summary

The image is of the ship badge for HMAS Swan, one or several naval vessels of the Royal Australian Navy. The ship badge is a logo used to represent the ship, and applies to all active or previous ships bearing the name. The image was originally located at Source: http://www.navy.gov.au/downloads/badges/shipdecombadges4.html, but following a reorganisation of the RAN website in August 2008, can now be found at http://www.navy.gov.au/w/index.php/Category:Badges

Fair use rationales

As several Australian warships may have used this name and ship badge over history, the image will likely be used in multiple articles. A fair use rationale should be provided for each article.

Non-free media information and use rationale true for HMAS Swan (DE 50)
Description	The ship badge of Australian warship HMAS Swan
Source	Originally sourced from the website of the copyright holder, the Royal Australian Navy, at Source: http://www.navy.gov.au/downloads/badges/shipdecombadges4.html. Following a reorganisation of the RAN website in August 2008, the original source page no longer exists, and a copy of the image can be found on the RAN website at http://www.navy.gov.au/w/index.php/Category:Badges
Article	HMAS Swan (DE 50)
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 a warship bearing the name HMAS Swan. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the warship, inform the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the warship, and provide visual information about the warship's badge and motto, which may be the subject of critical commentary
Replaceable?	The image is protected by copyright and other restrictions including article 6ter of the Paris Convention, therefore a free use alternative won't exist
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of HMAS Swan (DE 50)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Crest_Swan.pngtrue

Licensing

This is a representation of a government, military, regimental, family, or other symbol such as a flag, seal, emblem, coat of arms or crest. This symbol may be copyrighted by its holder. As well, it is known that the representation of this symbol is either copyrighted by the holder of the symbol or is not available under a free licence. There may also be other restrictions on reproduction, including but not limited to article 6ter of the Paris Convention. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such symbols

to illustrate the symbol in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as non-free use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content.
Fair use

History of Image:Crest Swan.gif

2008-08-30T07:12:24Z Saberwyn (Talk | contribs) (2372 bytes) (stnadardisr RAN badges)
2007-12-04T21:03:42Z CmdrObot (Talk | contribs) (824 bytes) (sp: Publically→Publicly)
2007-10-02T08:06:54Z Papa November (Talk | contribs) (828 bytes) (fixed fair use rationale)
2007-10-02T07:44:08Z Papa November (Talk | contribs) (931 bytes) (fixed fair use rationale)
2007-09-13T19:09:05Z Reedy Bot (Talk | contribs) (423 bytes) (Fixing link, Replaced: {{subst:dfu|invalid rationale per [[WP:NFCC#10}} → {{subst:dfu|invalid rationale per [[WP:NFCC#10]]}} using [[Project:AutoWikiBrowser|AWB]])
2007-09-13T18:28:45Z BetacommandBot (Talk | contribs) (369 bytes) (tagging as bad rationale per [[WP:NONFREE]])
2007-04-24T12:19:37Z Cydebot (Talk | contribs) (320 bytes) (Robot - Renaming non-free template "logo" per [[Wikipedia:Non-free content/templates]].)
2007-02-13T04:50:21Z Chowbok (Talk | contribs) (Removing from generic fair-use cat)
2007-01-11T13:08:42Z Cris II (Talk | contribs)
2007-01-11T13:05:45Z OrphanBot (Talk | contribs) (Fair use image without a rationale)
2007-01-11T12:49:30Z Cris II (Talk | contribs) ([[WP:AES|←]]Replaced page with '== Summary == Badge of the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Swan. Source: http://www.navy.gov.au/downloads/badges/shipdecombadges4.html<sub></sub> == Licensing ==...')
2007-01-11T12:43:29Z Cris II (Talk | contribs) (Badge of the Royal Australian Navy ship HMAS Swan. Source: http://www.navy.gov.au/downloads/badges/shipdecombadges4.html<sub></sub>)

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current	04:40, 4 October 2008		150 × 181 (10 KB)	718 Bot (talk \| contribs)	==Summary== The image is of the ship badge for HMAS Swan, one or several naval vessels of the Royal Australian Navy. The ship badge is a logo used to represent the ship, and applies to all active or previous ships bearing the name. The image was originall

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HMAS Swan (DE 50)