File:Gloria Estefan Bad Boy Single.jpg

Summary edit

Cover of the Miami Sound Machine's single "Bad Boy (Miami Sound Machine song)" taken as the second single from their second English album Primitive Love.

Fair rationale use edit

The manner of said use constitutes a "fair use" under United States copyright law. Specifically:

1. The article for which the use occurs is purely educational in nature.
2. The sole purpose of this use is to illustrate the CD in question.
3. Said image is the primary means of visual identification of the main topic of the article.
4. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for the illegal production of counterfeit goods.
5. Since it is copyrighted CD keep case box art, the image is not replaceable with a free content image.
6. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the image.
7. The market for the original CD product will not be diminished by this use of the image.
8. For an article about a single, the cover artwork is very important and adds significantly to the article.
9. Image created by Sony Music Entertainment. Sony Music Entertainment owns the copyright to this image.

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:Gloria_Estefan_Bad_Boy_Single.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.