File:Springfield IL Seal.svg

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	City seal for Springfield, Illinois
Author or copyright owner
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Springfield, IL Website
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Springfield, Illinois
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the entity in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	n.a.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The entire image: because the entire logo is needed to identify the City of Springfield, to properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and to avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	n.a.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Springfield, Illinois//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Springfield_IL_Seal.svgtrue

Licensing

This logo is an official seal of a governmental entity or one of its government agencies, and may be subject to copyright, trademark, and/or other restrictions on its reproduction, especially in commercial contexts. The copyright is likely held by the government or agency in question. It is believed that the use of images of seals

to illustrate the government or agency in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement.

Use of this seal here does not imply endorsement by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Logos for more information.
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 should only be used for seals. Do not use it for other purposes.

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

File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	16:51, 26 July 2022		314 × 318 (226 KB)	LBDesigns (talk \| contribs)	improved vectorization
	05:33, 13 May 2019	No thumbnail	314 × 318 (101 KB)	Begoon (talk \| contribs)	reduce nominal size, per WP:NFC, validate
	00:17, 9 May 2019	No thumbnail	520 × 515 (125 KB)	LBDesigns (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a non-free logo using File Upload Wizard

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