File:Progression of Big Boy logos.png
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| Description | Captioned "The changing Big Boy", an ordered progression of Big Boy character logos used as trademarks by the Big Boy restaurant chains. |
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| Author or copyright owner |
A. Ben Washam; B. D.: attributed to Frisch's Big Boy as owner; C. E. F. G.: attributed to Big Boy as owner (ownership might now coexist with Frisch's) |
| Source (WP:NFCC#4) | Original publication: Big Boy menus, signage, advertising Immediate source: Displayed logos are widely documented. Sources include Hansen's The Big Boy Story, King of Them All, images taken or traced from images presented on ebay, and from vector graphics in electronic documents published by Big Boy or Frisch's Big Boy, or available at seeklogo.com. A. Scanned from: Hansen, Christian, The Big Boy Story: King of Them All, inside front cover. (Orientation reversed as typical.) B. "Frisch's Grand Opening" (Print Ad), Hamilton Daily News Journal, Jun 13, 1952, Page 22 C. 1956 Logo on Big Boy Bib circa 1961 D. Big Boy logo on 1971 Cincinnati Reds Baseball Schedule E. Bob's Big Boy Running Boy Sticker at Burbank Bob's Big Boy site F. One logo on past Bob's Big Boy Matchbooks G. Isolated character portion from logo at seeklogo.com archive (judged perceptually identical at scale) |
| Date of publication | Multiple dates: A. 1937, B. 1952, C. 1956, D. 1969, E. 1969, F. 1981, G. 1988. (As marked on image and noted in caption) |
| Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) | Big Boy Restaurants |
| Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) | The set of Big Boy character logos are the specific topic of historic commentary about the progression of logos used and the parallel nature of West Coast and East Coast Big Boy logos that words alone could not convey. |
| Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1) |
Because they are non-free logos, there are no free representations. Any substitute that is not a derivative work would fail to convey the meaning intended, would tarnish or misrepresent its image, or would fail its purpose of identification, on or commentary. |
| Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) | The images are historic, used solely for scholarly commentary, and are presented monochromatically at modest resolution. They are used one time in one article. Any lesser use would be no use. |
| Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2) |
Wikipedia is not a restaurant nor promoter of restaurants. Use does not impact, detract from, or compete with the business of Big Boy restaurants. Further, reasonably scaled registration symbols were added to each individual logo to directly convey their protected status to those who view the image/page at Wikipedia or where republished. |
| Other information | (B) and (D) are copyright Frisch's Restaurants; all others are copyright Big Boy Restaurants International, by succession, and Frisch's Restaurants, by 2001 and 2008 agreements, exclusive to regional use. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Big Boy Restaurants//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Progression_of_Big_Boy_logos.pngtrue | |
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 | This is a logo of an organization, item, or event, and is protected by copyright and trademark. 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. |
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| current | 01:00, 27 May 2022 | | 450 × 450 (66 KB) | Box73 | Reposted uncropped image of 12:04, January 30, 2017. Good faith cropping by LucasKannou removed white (grey) space, and made the composition appear crowded and amateur, without apparent benefit. Because the image is composed of 8 individual logos, and white space improves the look and feel of the image and article, the size of the image should be permitted to exceed MOS guidelines for that of a single logo. WP:IAR |
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