File:6cyclemind-permission to shine.jpg

Summary edit

Cover of the album Permission to Shine by 6cyclemind, released by Sony BMG Pilipinas.

Rationale of fair use for Permission to Shine edit

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

1. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
2. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
3. 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.
4. For an article about an album, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
5. The cover is being used for informational purposes only.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Licensing edit

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 work 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 the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6cyclemind-permission_to_shine.jpg true