User:Megapixie/CopyrightFlowChart/FairuseCover

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The image may meet Wikipedia:Fairuse#Policy as an album, CD, DVD, tape or book cover, when it is used in an article about the album, CD, DVD, tape or book itself. It should not be used to illustrate the appearance of anything contained in the image; for example, using the cover of True Blue to illustrate the appearance of Madonna is not fair use. Please read the Wikipedia:Fairuse#Counterexamples to confirm that you will be using the image correctly. If everything is okay, then you must:

  • make sure the image is no larger than necessary to get across the point you are making (usually not wider than 300 pixels),
  • provide a Wikipedia:Fair use rationale for the use of the image in the article (Explain what the image is and why it is essential in the article, and why it couldn’t be replaced by a free image.),
  • give the source of the image (for example, “Own scan of UK cover of the book About a Boy, 3rd paperback edition”) and
  • add one of the following copyright tags to the image.

[edit] Fair use tags

  • {{Albumcover}} for music album or single covers
  • {{Boardgamecover}} for board game cover art
  • {{Book cover}} for book covers
    • {{Comiccover}} for comic book covers (trade paperbacks and the like go under {{Book cover}}, however)
      • {{Promocomic}} for promotional images of the artwork to comic book covers, released without indicia to the media
  • {{Credit Card Cover}} for credit card covers
  • {{DVDcover}} for DVD covers
  • {{Gamecover}} for video game covers
    • {{Arcade-game-cover}} for arcade, pinball, pachinko and similar style cover art or pictures
  • {{Product-cover}} for general branded product covers
  • {{Softwarecover}} for other software covers
  • {{Magazinecover}} for magazine covers
    • {{TIME}} for TIME magazine covers
    • {{SportsIllustratedCover}} for Sports Illustrated magazine covers
  • {{Newspapercover}} for scans of entire newspaper pages
  • {{Video disc cover}} for video disc formats other than DVD
  • {{Video tape cover}} for video tape covers