File:Department of State Services logo.jpg

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Summary edit

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

Insignia of the Nigerian State Security Services

Author or
copyright owner

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

DSS.gov.ng

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

State Security Service (Nigeria)

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)

Don't use files per topic than necessary

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 unrestricted redistribution in unaltered form but forbids derivative works. Files licensed 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.

Logo by the State Security Services of Nigeria

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of State Security Service (Nigeria)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Department_of_State_Services_logo.jpgtrue

Licensing edit

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

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.

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	00:01, 8 October 2023		311 × 320 (51 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	15:36, 7 October 2023	No thumbnail	1,132 × 1,163 (94 KB)	QeenAnn (talk \| contribs)	Updated, improved design
	08:42, 6 September 2021	No thumbnail	220 × 200 (13 KB)	QeenAnn (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

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File usage

The following pages on the English Wikipedia use this file (pages on other projects are not listed):

State Security Service (Nigeria)