Image:Black Sabbath debut album.jpg

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Used on Wikipedia under fair use guidelines:

Low resolution copy of the album cover

RedWolf 00:34, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

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.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Black Sabbath (album)
Description	Album cover for the album Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.
Source	Derived from a scan of the album 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.
Article	Black Sabbath (album)
Portion used	Entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork
Low resolution?	Is only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy.
Purpose of use	Illustrates the appearance of the album and identifies it by recognized features.
Replaceable?	No free equivalent can equal this image (any would be a derivative of this artwork)
Other information	Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the album as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves.

[edit] Fair use in Gothic metal

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

The image is only a small portion of the overall product and serves as an easily identifiable part of a larger entity.
The copy of the image is low-resolution and will not produce high-quality copies of the art for illegal duplication. The quality is high enough to clearly present the image and to place the subject represented by the image in a good light.
The use of the image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to gain commercially from the work.
It illustrates educational articles about the subject represented by the image.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
It adds significantly to the article because it illustrates an important precursor of the genre as discussed in the accompanying text.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:39, 23 August 2007	223×214 (11 KB)	RedWolf (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	13:18, 12 July 2005	946×946 (1.16 MB)	Bleck (Talk \| contribs)
	00:33, 11 September 2004	223×214 (11 KB)	RedWolf (Talk \| contribs)	(Black Sabbath - ''Black Sabbath'' album cover)