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[edit] Summary

Cover of Black or White

[edit] Fair Use Rationale for Black or White

The image is low resolution.
Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD;
No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information.
The image does not replace the original market role of the CD.
Its use here does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD in any way.
The image has previously been published and is freely available elsewhere on the internet.
The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements.
The image contributes significantly to the article by illustrating the subject of the article.
The image is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Michael Jackson.

[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.