File:Std St'ns Travel With Us.JPG

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Summary[edit]

This is the Standard Stations logo from the cover of a leaflet of advertising material published in 1939 by Standard Stations. It is being used in an article in WP about the Standard Stations case in the Supreme Court in 1949. The picture was presumably copyright protected in 1939 (under the 1909 Copyright Act) but it is unknown whether the copyright was renewed for another 28 years upon its expiration 28 years later. If not renewed in 1967, under the applicable 1909 Act the copyright will have expired. If it were renewed in 1967, which is unlikely because its value as advertising material had evaporated by then, the renewal would have expired in 1995, making it PUBLIC DOMAIN. In any event, the use of a drawing of a company logo in an educational, non-commercial article about the company whose logo it is, is recognized as a fair use. Therefore, there is no copyright any longer (PUBLIC DOMAIN) or if there is this is a fair use.

Fair use in Standard Oil Co. v. United States (Standard Stations)[edit]

Though this image may be subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the entity that the logo represents.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods.
4. The logo is not used in such a way that the reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the logo.
5. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
6. Because it is a non-free logo, there is almost certainly no free representation. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification or commentary.
7. Use of the logo in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy, logo guidelines, and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

License Status: As explained above, this picture is in the PUBLIC DOMAIN because of its age. Furthermore, the use is a FAIR USE for the reasons stated above, irrespective of whether the copyright EXPIRED. In addition this image was published in 1939 without a copyright notice on it.

Licensing[edit]

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1929 and 1963, and although there may or may not have been a copyright notice, the copyright was not renewed. Unless its author has been dead for the required period, it is copyrighted in the countries or areas that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works, such as Canada (50 pma), Mainland China (50 pma, not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 pma), Mexico (100 pma), Switzerland (70 pma), and other countries with individual treaties. See Commons:Hirtle chart for further explanation. PD-US Public domain in the United States //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Std_St%27ns_Travel_With_Us.JPG

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:Std_St%27ns_Travel_With_Us.JPG true

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