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This image is fair use for in the article Starfleet ranks and insignia. Here is the reasoning for this.
The contents of this image are not owned by me, they are not available under a free license, and they are not in the public domain. Therefore, I do not believe I can license this image under the GNU Free Documentation License or declare it to be in the public domain using the GFDL-self tag or the PD-self tag respectively. Since the contents of this image are not free, and neither Wikipedia nor I have obtained permission from its owner(s) as far as I know, its use is on Wikipedia is only allowed under fair use. One of the things for which fair use allows is the use of copyrighted images without the permission of its owner(s) for educational, nonprofit purposes, such as portraying the subject of a Wikipedia article with a copyrighted image. Such is the case for Starfleet insignia pin.png.

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