File:Dead low tide.jpg

Summary edit

Fair use rationale for Dead Low Tide (album) edit

The use of this audio recording cover in the article is believed to be fair use, for the following reasons:

1. This reproduction of the cover is of inferior resolution and quality to the original, and could not be used as an adequate replacement for the original.
2. The image is used only to represent the audio recording in question, in an article which makes explicit and extensive reference to it, adding significantly to the educational content of the article.
3. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information.
4. The image is freely available from many other sources on the internet and its inclusion here does not to make it substantially more accessible than it already is.
5. The use of the image here does not limit the copyright holder's ability to distribute, sell or promote the recording in any way.
6. Copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the cover artwork on another CD.

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:Dead_low_tide.jpg true

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag should only be used for covers of audio recording releases. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Album rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale album cover. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.