File:Van Morrison Into the music cover.jpg

Summary edit

album cover for Van Morrison's Into the Music Used on Wikipedia under fair use guidelines: Low resolution copy of the album cover

Fair use rationale for Into the Music edit

• No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information.
• The image does not replace the original market role of the original copyrighted media.
• The image is low resolution.
• The image has previously been published.
• The image meets general Wikipedia content requirements.
• The image contributes significantly to the article by identifying the subject of the article.

Fair use in Van Morrison article edit

In addition to points above,

1. This album marked a turning point in Morrison's career with his music taking on the healing powers of music & spirituality, and therefore becoming less accessible to the general public, especially in the United States.

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:Van_Morrison_Into_the_music_cover.jpg true

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