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[edit] Summary

The album cover of American Beauty (1970) by the Grateful Dead. It is considered their studio masterpiece or magnum opus, and is viewed favorable with it's predecessor Workingman's Dead (1970).

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free / fair use media rationale – non-free album cover –for American Beauty (album)
Description	This is the cover art for the studio album American Beauty by the artist Grateful Dead. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Warner Bros. Records, or the graphic artist.
Source	May be found at the following website: http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/grateful_dead/american_beauty/
Article	American Beauty (album)
Portion used	Whole front cover.
Low resolution?	The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.
Purpose of use	Main infobox. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for.Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public.
Replaceable?	As musical cover art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.
Other information	Use of the cover art in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

Non-free / fair use media rationale – non-free album cover –for Grateful Dead
Description	This is the cover art for the studio album American Beauty by the artist Grateful Dead. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Warner Bros. Records, or the graphic artist.
Source	The cover art can or could be obtained from Warner Bros. Records
Article	Grateful Dead
Portion used	Whole front cover.
Low resolution?	The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.
Purpose of use	Written in the context of the article. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone. American Beauty is considered to be the Grateful Dead's studio masterpiece. In 2003, the album was ranked number 258 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. Since American Beauty is one of the key works of the Grateful Dead, and since, as an album, it is uniquely identified by its album cover, and since the use of this image is explained, with references, in the caption, the use of the album cover in the article "Grateful Dead" falls under Wikipedia fair use guidelines. .Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public.
Replaceable?	As musical cover art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.
Other information	Use of the cover art in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

[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.

The use of this image in the article(s) American Beauty (album) and Grateful Dead was reviewed by Kaiba on 19:18, 12 February 2008 (UTC) and deemed likely to qualify as fair use, as it is believed to meet all criteria as described in Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. This image's use on other pages or in different contexts may require additional review.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:32, 8 December 2007	300×300 (32 KB)	Kaiba (Talk \| contribs)	(lower resolution image)
	21:16, 2 February 2003	200×200 (10 KB)	Tokerboy (Talk \| contribs)	(fair use album cover)