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The image is an album cover that illustrates the article The Smiths. Its inclusion is claimed as fair use because:

It illustrates an educational article about the album from which the cover illustration was taken.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
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.
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.

The use of the cover illustration is in good faith, and its inclusion enhances the quality of the article without reducing the commercial value of the recording from which it was drawn.

The image also illustrates the article The Smiths, the album's recording artists. Its inclusion is claimed as fair use because:

The cover art designed by The Smiths forms an important and distinctive aspect of the group's recorded output as commercial product, as specifically indicated in the accompanying article.
It is a low resolution image.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
The use of the cover in this context will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original.

The use of the cover illustration is in good faith, and its inclusion enhances the quality of the article without reducing the commercial value of the recording from which it was drawn.

The image also illustrates the article Joe Dallesandro, the album's cover star. Its inclusion is claimed as fair use because:

The subject of the cover art is a significant cultural icon whose cross-cultural significance is demonstrated by their presence upon this culturally-significant 1980s album.
It is a low resolution image.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
The use of the image in this context will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original.

The use of the illustration is in good faith, and its inclusion enhances the quality of the article without reducing the commercial value of the product from which it was drawn.

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.