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2 Fair use in Sink the Bismark
3 Source
4 Licensing

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[edit] Fair use in Sink the Bismark

This is an image of the cover of an audio recording. Although this image is subject to copyright, it's use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws and complies with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria because:

The image is being used as the primary means of visual identification of the subject or topic;
No free equivalent is available or could be created that would clearly distinguish this particular work from similar works by the same or other artists;
The use of the image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the CD/Album/Music in any way;
The image is a low resolution copy; and
Other digital captures of the cover are available outside of Wikipedia;

[edit] Source

Derived from a digital capture of an album/CD 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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current	16:05, 13 August 2007	199×199 (12 KB)	Thew42 (Talk \| contribs)	(== Fair use in Sink the Bismark == This is an image of the cover of an audio recording. Although this image is subject to copyright, it's use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws and complies with Wikipedia's non-free content criteria because: * The )