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[edit] Fair use rationale in Making the Road

It is contended that the use of this album cover in Making the Road qualifies as fair use, in the context of wikipedias fair use criteria and applicable copyright laws, for the following reasons:

No free or public domain images have been located for this album.
This image , a small portion of the overall copyrighted content, illustrates the cover of the album or associated single that is discussed in the article Making the Road.
This image is used for identification purposes for the following reasons
- This image can be used to identify the album or associated single that is the subject of this article.
- The identification that this image provides could not be equally provided via prose alone as the album cover is directly related to the content within for the purpose of identification. This identification only qualifies when used in the article on Making the Road as this image is the cover of that album.
- This image greatly increase the readers ability to identify the album over any form of prose including traditional track listing and/or an album description alone.
It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the album in any way.
The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
The image is being used in an informative way and does not detract from sales of the album.

[edit] Summary

http://www.fatwreck.com/record/detail/599

[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.