File:Efcc logo.png

Summary[edit]

From the 1 July, 2006 issue of the EFCC's official publication, Zero Tolerance. Image is a low-resolution scan of the coat of arms of a cabinet-level organisation within the Government of Nigeria.

Licensing[edit]

This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright. 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 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. Certain commercial use of this image may also be trademark infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos. Use of the logo here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor vice versa. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Efcc_logo.png true

Please see talk page for further information regarding copyright. Heather 15:36, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair Use in Economic and Financial Crimes Commission[edit]

This is an emblem rather than a logo (the logo tag was simply chosen as being the closest to being relevant); it illustrates an educational article about the entity that the emblem represents; it is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic; it is a low resolution image, and it is absurd to claim that a police emblem could be used to produce counterfeit goods; it is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the emblem; it is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Naturally, being a product of the Government of Nigeria, this emblem is specifically exempted from copyright (Nigerian Copyright Act, Second Schedule; "The right conferred in respect of a work by section 5 of this Act does not include the right to control ... (k) any use made of a work by or under the direction or control of the Government" [1]). Unfortunately, the only licensing tag that I could find for emblems says, "This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark"--which is untrue. When will somebody make a PD-NG-Gov tag? I'd do it myself, but have no idea how the part of Wikipedia that produces licensing tags works and don't want to go bumbling around in such a sensitive area without knowing what I'm doing. Heather (talk) 02:31, 13 September 2008 (UTC)