File:Breathing Under Water CD.jpg

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:Breathing_Under_Water_CD.jpg true

Fair use in Breathing Under Water edit

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

1. The cover is being used for informational purposes only. It illustrates the album from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. 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.
3. Copies of this image could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image it's not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Source edit

Derived from a digital capture

(scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.