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1 Summary
2 Licensing
- 2.1 Fair use in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
3 Source

[edit] Summary

Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Description	Front Cover of 'The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle' album.
Source	Derived from a scan of the album cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Portion used	Entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork
Low resolution?	Is only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy.
Purpose of use	Illustrates the article The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle which provides enough critical commentary for fair use to be applicible.
Replaceable?	No free equivalent can equal this image (any would be a derivative of this artwork).
Other information	Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the album as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves.

[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.

[edit] Fair use in The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

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

The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies of the image could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD. It is a low resolution image. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Please note that I am not prepared to keep rationalising the usage of this image. If you don't want CD cover images, then don't solicit them with "Click herer to upload". I have given the rationale and that should be the end of it. Talk to me personally if you wish to debate it, but stop sending a bot every month to throw up this irritant.

[edit] Source

Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	13:44, 11 September 2007	240×240 (15 KB)	Hardylane (Talk \| contribs)	(Album art for "The Great Rock n Roll Swindle". Scanned in by uploader. )