File:Michigan Department of Corrections seal 50 percent.jpg

Summary

Non-free media data
Description	Symbol of Michigan Department of Corrections .
Source	Michigan Department of Corrections
Portion used	Whole symbol used to avoid misrepresenting image.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by Michigan Department of Corrections.

Non-free media use rationales

Non-free media rationale for Michigan Department of Corrections
Article	Michigan Department of Corrections
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of this article topic.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright and other restrictions including article 6ter of the Paris Convention, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

Licensing

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