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[edit] Summary

Description: The cover of Ol' Dirty Bastard's album Osirus.

Source: The creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all derivative images is held by the artist or record company. Fair use is claimed regardless.

[edit] Fair use rationale for Osirus (album)

No free equivalent is available.
The cover is intended for wide distribution and its use here does not detract from the album.
The cover is low resolution and only the front portion is used.
The cover has been previously published by retail outlets.
The cover meets general Wikipedia content requirements.
The cover meets Wikipedia's image use policy.
The cover is used only in the said article.
For an article about an album, the cover is one of the most relevant images that can be included.
The cover is used in the article namespace.
The source and copyright tag is identified for the 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.