Drawing of the Buffalo Bills helmet, citing fair use as the logo on the helmet is a copyrighted trademark.
Fair Use Rationale for Buffalo Bills
It is a fair use of the image, for the following reasons:
- It is of the logo of an NFL team which retains the copyright.
- It was obtained from the Sportslogos.net website which serves only to collect and archive these images.
- No free-license alternatives are available that convey the same information.
- The image is no larger, and of no higher quality, than required for its use in articles.
- It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
- Its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder, and its use on Wikipedia is not expected to decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.
This is an illustration of the uniform of a sports team, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of uniforms
- to illustrate the sports team 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 United States copyright law. 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 image here does not imply endorsement of the organization by Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation, nor does it imply endorsement of Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Foundation by the organization.
To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
For full information on this image, see its image description page on Wikipedia.
