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[edit] Summary

Cover to the Carpenters' DVD. It is of fair use rationale because:

It is a low-resolution image that effectively describes the DVD.
It may not be illegally reproduced because of its low resolution.

[edit] Licensing

This image is the cover of a videotape, DVD, Blu-ray Disc, etc. and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the video or the studio which produced the video in question. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of video covers

to illustrate the videotape 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:Fair use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.

[edit] Fair Use Rationale for use in Gold: Greatest Hits (DVD)

It is believed that the use of this image in the article Gold: Greatest Hits (DVD) qualifies as fair use because:

It is low resolution
It does not hinder the copyright holder's rights to financial gain from their work
It is the cover of the DVD in question, and is only being used to illustrate the article about said DVD
An equivalent free image could not be created, as it would either be substantially identical to(and thus deriviative of) this image, or it would not be the cover of the DVD in question, and thus not serve the same purpose.