Template:Non-free logo

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

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.
This tag is only for use on images of logos.
Template:Non-free use rationale logo may be helpful for stating the rationale.
Please do not use this template to tag non-free icons of computer software. Such items should be tagged with {{Non-free computer icon}} template.
Regarding uses other than in the original article: Check the non-free use criteria and do not assume that existing rationales can be simply copied and pasted, as they may not necessarily apply.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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This documentation is transcluded from Template:Non-free logo/doc.

This template is used on approximately 162,000 pages.
To avoid major disruption and server load, any changes should be tested in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage. The tested changes can be added to this page in a single edit. Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

Place this template in the file description pages of non-free logos. Do not use this template for copyright-free logos.

Transcluding this template in a file description page will automatically include the page in Category:All non-free logos. It may also be used to add one other category—see Category:Wikipedia images of logos for potential category options—as follows:

{{Non-free logo|Add category name here and omit the 'Category:' prefix}}

Registered trademarks

If the image is also a registered trademark, include the regtrademark=yes parameter as shown below:

{{Non-free logo|regtrademark=yes}}

If the image is a non-registered trademark, add nonregtrademark=yes as shown below:

{{Non-free logo|nonregtrademark=yes}}

Registered trademarks

See also