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[edit] Fair use in Gryphon_(album)

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

The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
The image is of low resolution, thus cannot be used for making illegal copies of the album artwork.
The image is only a part of the album cover.

[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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	11:37, 23 February 2008	350×343 (147 KB)	Queelis (Talk \| contribs)	(=== Fair use in Gryphon_(album) === Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: #The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic. #The image is of low resolution)