File:Black Angels logo.png
Black_Angels_logo.png (300 × 305 pixels, file size: 11 KB, MIME type: image/png)
Summary[edit]
Logo of the band The Black Angels. Originally at http://www.theblackangels.com/. The band does not give specific copyright attribution on the site, but presumably they hold the copyright on their logo. Besides the general fair use claim for a group's logo in an article about the group, the article specifically discusses the significance of the logo.
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. |
| Description |
This is the logo owned by The Black Angels (band) for The Black Angels (band). |
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| Source |
The logo is from the following website: http://www.theblackangels.com/ |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
The entire logo is used to convey the meaning intended and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the intended image. |
| Low resolution? |
Yes |
| Purpose of use |
The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing The Black Angels (band), a subject of public interest. The significance of the logo is to help the reader identify the organization, assure the readers that they have reached the right article containing critical commentary about the organization, and illustrate the organization's intended branding message in a way that words alone could not convey. |
| Replaceable? |
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. |
| Other information |
Use of the logo in the article clearly complies fair use under United States copyright law. As for Wikipedia non-free content policy, while logo guidelines states "Logos for musical bands are generally not as integral to a band's image as corporate logos are for companies," this is pretty clearly not the case for the Black Angels. Their album jackets and publicity materials never show legible images of the band; they are always clearly intended as works of art, and indicate the band's allegiance to the tradition of such earlier "art rock" groups as the Velvet Underground (from whose lyrics they took their name, and whose vocalist Nico is depicted on this logo). In this particular case, a logo would be far more familiar to the band's fans than any photo of the band themselves. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Black Angels (band)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Angels_logo.pngtrue | |
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| current | 08:06, 5 November 2006 | | 300 × 305 (11 KB) | Jmabel (talk | contribs) | Logo of the band The Black Angels. Originally at http://www.theblackangels.com/. The band does not give specific copyright attribution on the site, but presumably they hold the copyright on their logo. Besides the general fair use claim for a group's |
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