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1 Summary
2 Fair use rationale
3 Licensing
- 3.1 Fair use rationale

[edit] Summary

[edit] Fair use rationale

It is contended that the use of this album cover in Classic Crack qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:

This image illustrates the cover of the album or associated single that is discussed in the article.
This image can be used to identify the album or associated single that is the subject of this article.
It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the album in any way.
The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
The image is being used in an informative way and does not detract from sales of the album.
No free or public domain images have been located for this album.

[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.

[edit] Fair use rationale

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

The image is only a small portion of the overall product.
The copy of the image is low-resolution and will not produce high-quality copies of the art for illegal duplication. The quality is high enough to clearly present the image and to place the subject represented by the image in a good light.
The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to sell their products or services.
It illustrates educational articles about the subject represented by the image.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value. A free image could not be created to replace it without itself being a derivative work.

Strangerer (Talk) 18:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)