File:Lancaster badge.jpg

File information

Description	Crest of HMS Lancaster
Source	[1]
Date	2011
Author	Royal Navy
Permission (Reusing this file)	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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lancaster_badge.jpg true 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. Fair use true

This image has been uploaded to illustrate the article on HMS Lancaster, the Royal Navy ship to which it belongs.

The image may be subject to copyright, but is believed to be usable under fair use in HMS Lancaster because: The badge is not defaced, misrepresented or used in a misleading manner; and the image is used solely for the purposes of identifying the related vessel, or illustrating that vessel's badge directly. A 'free' replacement would be difficult to obtain given the related vessels status.