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[edit] Summary

Fair use in Whispers (album) Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. This image is used for informational purposes only. It is of a German singer Thomas Anders, the image is taken from the 1991 Whispers album's cover (official website).

2. The image has a lower resolution than of the original and quality of which will consequently be much lower.

3. The image is not being used to confuse the reader that the article nor the image are authorized by the owner.

4.The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. Consequently, copies of the image could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.

[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.

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current	13:48, 3 September 2007	500×504 (37 KB)	Bolafik (Talk \| contribs)	(Fair use in Whispers (album) Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: 1. This image is used for informational purposes only. It is of a German singer Thomas Anders, the image is taken from the 1991 )