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[edit] Summary

Cover of the Rascal Flatts CD

[edit] Fair use in Rascal Flatts (album)

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

It is a low resolution of a CD album cover.
The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Rascal Flatts.
For an article about an album and discography, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD album in any way; in fact, it may encourage sales.

[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.