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1 Summary
- 1.1 Fair use in Audioslave (album)
- 1.2 Fair use in Audioslave
2 Licensing

[edit] Summary

Cover for Audioslave's album Audioslave.

[edit] Fair use in Audioslave (album)

Though this picture is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

The picture is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic, namely Audioslave, the first album by a famous band, Audioslave.
The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies of the picture could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
It is a low resolution picture.
The picture is only a small portion of the commercial product.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted picture of comparable educational value.

[edit] Fair use in Audioslave

Though this picture is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

The picture is of lower resolution and quality than the original.
The picture is only a small portion of the commercial product.
The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies of the picture could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted picture of comparable educational value.
The picture of the cover art is used in the first subsection of the History section of the article Audioslave, which discusses the debut album in great detail.
The picture is used as the primary means of visual identification of a cover designed by a famous artist, Storm Thorgerson.

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a cover of an audio recording, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the album or the artist(s) which produced the recording or cover artwork in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of such covers

solely to illustrate the audio recording 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. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For an example fair use rationale, see here.