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Summary edit
| Description | This is the battle flag of the 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers, a regiment that fought in the American Civil War from 1862-1863. This image is courtesy of the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, which preserves and houses the flag along with other flags of Pennsylvania Civil War regiments at their facility in Harrisburg. | ||
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| Author or copyright owner |
Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee - http://cpc.state.pa.us | ||
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: Photograph of artifact taken by Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, published online for public gallery Immediate source: http://www.pacivilwarflags.org/regiments/indivFlag.cfm?accsn=1985.274 | ||
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | 151st Pennsylvania Infantry | ||
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | This file is an image of the battle flag of the 151st Pennsylvania Volunteers. Battle flags were incredibly important symbols of regimental pride and identity to Civil War units. By using this file on the article for the 151st Pennsylvania, it will display to readers the key identifying symbol of the regiment in the field during its service. | ||
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
The flag is kept preserved by the Pennsylvania Capitol Preservation Committee, or is occasionally loaned out to museums. No other quality images of the original flag in its current, preserved state exist. | ||
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | This file will be used in a resolution similar to that of images of other battle flags on other articles, and will only be used for the article of the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry. | ||
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
The Capitol Preservation Committee states, "Fair use of copyrighted material includes the use of protected materials for noncommercial educational purposes, such as teaching, scholarship, research, criticism, commentary, and news reporting." (http://www.pacivilwarflags.org/home/photoRights.cfm) As the use of this file will be for the purpose of scholarship and open education on the 151st Pennsylvania Infantry, the file will fall under fair-use categorization. Furthermore, the CPC's purpose in preserving the flags of Pennsylvania Civil War regiments is to protect them and allow them to be a piece of public cultural heritage. Through use of this file, more of the public will be able to observe this particular piece of history. | ||
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| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of 151st Pennsylvania Infantry//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:National_Colors_of_the_151st_Pennsylvania_Volunteers,_1862-1863.pngtrue | |||
 | This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: rm digital watermark, which read "PA CPC". |
Licensing edit
 | This image is a faithful digitisation of a unique historic image, and the copyright for it is most likely held by the person who created the image or the agency employing the person. It is believed that the use of this image may qualify 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 for more information. Please remember that the non-free content criteria require that non-free images on Wikipedia must not "[be] used in a manner that is likely to replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media." Use of historic images from press agencies must only be of a transformative nature, when the image itself is the subject of commentary rather than the event it depicts (which is the original market role, and is not allowed per policy). |
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| Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
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| current | 03:44, 22 July 2019 | | 318 × 313 (189 KB) | Begoon (talk | contribs) | rm digital watermark, which read "PA CPC" |
| 02:34, 10 April 2017 | No thumbnail | 318 × 313 (189 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) | |
| 23:56, 2 April 2017 | No thumbnail | 880 × 868 (1.59 MB) | KeystoneSteel (talk | contribs) | Uploading a non-free file using File Upload Wizard |
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