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Non-free / fair use media rationale for Whatever's Got You Down
Description	Whatever's Got You Down LP cover
Source	No source specified. Please edit this image description and provide a source.
Article	Whatever's Got You Down
Portion used	Front cover
Low resolution?	Low
Purpose of use	To illustrate the significance of said subject and helps to lead to a better understanding of its intent and purpose.
Replaceable?	No. This is the cover of a specific piece of work.
Other information	Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because: The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Samiam. It is a low resolution copy of an album cover. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product. 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 album. It illustrates educational articles about the album from which the cover illustration was taken. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article. For an article about an album or artist, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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.