File:5thgearbradpaisley.jpg

Summary edit

Cover of the Brad Paisley album, "5th Gear" (from echotunes.com)

Rationale of fair use for 5th Gear (album) edit

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

1. No free or public domain images have been located for this album.
2. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
3. The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the single in any way.
4. For an article about an album and discography, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
5. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
6. The cover is being used for informational purposes only.

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:5thgearbradpaisley.jpg true