File:RAAF Crest (Unit Badge) of No. 25 (City of Perth) Squadron RAAF.png

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Crest of No. 25 (City of Perth) Squadron RAAF, depicting a black swan the bird emblem of Western Australia. Use of the Crest is protected as a defence emblem under section 83 of the Australian Defence Act 1903.

Author or
copyright owner

Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) : All RAAF badges, current and historic, are protected as defence emblems under section 83 of the Defence Act (Australia) 1903.

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Brand Manager, Department of Defence, Canberra, ACT, Australia; email dated 15 February 2022.

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

No. 25 Squadron RAAF

Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)

To serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question.

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

Any derivative work based upon the logo would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

Used for Official RAAF Unit Badge (aka squadron Crest) used only for in-Service and public identification of No. 25 Squadron RAAF.

Portion: The entire Unit Badge (aka squadron Crest) of No. 25 Squadron RAAF) provided by the RAAF is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image.

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Replaceability: Because it is a non-free, copyright protected logo, there is almost certainly no free representation. Any substitute that is a non- derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

The use of a low resolution image of an organization's logo in the article about that organization will not impact the commercial viability of the logo.

Other information

Aside from the claim that this file qualifies for use without permission under fair use, this file is also available under a license that permits educational, personal, or otherwise non-commercial use only. Files available under such terms do not meet the definition of Free Cultural Works as adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation, and are therefore considered non-free on Wikipedia and may only be used under Wikipedia's non-free content policy.
This tag must only be used with a non-free license tag and a valid fair use rationale as required by policy.

1. The image is being used here for informational purposes only, and its use on the English-language Wikipedia is not predicted to affect the value of the image or that of its copyright in any way.

2. History: It is currently and has been the official RAAF Unit Badge (aka squadron Crest) of No. 25 Squadron RAAF since at least 1960 or even many years before.

3. Purpose of use: The image illustrates an educational article about the entity that the image represents and is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.

4. Replaceable? No free-licensed or public domain images have been located, or are likely to be located, that would serve as a suitable replacement for this image.

5. Other information: As a unit crest, the image has little to no commercial value, and its reproduction here will not deleteriously affect profits for the copyright holder

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of No. 25 Squadron RAAF//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RAAF_Crest_(Unit_Badge)_of_No._25_(City_of_Perth)_Squadron_RAAF.pngtrue

Licensing

This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals

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

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information.
Fair use

To the uploader:

Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples.
This tag should only be used for seals. Do not use it for other purposes.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:50, 17 April 2022		265 × 376 (121 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	09:25, 14 April 2022	No thumbnail	595 × 842 (192 KB)	Shellac41 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

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No. 25 Squadron RAAF