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[edit] Summary

This was taken from rateyourmusic.com, a site which features many album covers. This is used to simply illustrate the cover of a single, and is in accordance with the fair use rationale. There are many other covers of this nature on Wikipedia, and this one is just as "legal" as the others.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Surfin' USA (song)
Description	Album Cover for the Beach Boys’ single Surfin’ USA/Shut Down (song)
Source	[1]
Article	Surfin' USA (song)
Portion used	Whole image
Low resolution?	280px x 280px
Purpose of use	To illustrate the songs at hand
Replaceable?	No, this is a unique album cover

[edit] Licensing

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 album 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 United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For an example fair use rationale, see here.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:17, 10 June 2007	280×280 (183 KB)	Metstotop333 (Talk \| contribs)	(This was taken from rateyourmusic.com, a site which features many album covers. This is used to simply illustrate the cover of a single, and is in accordance with the fair use rationale. There are many other cove)