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[edit] Summary

Cover of Rainbow's 1997 compilation album, The Very Best of Rainbow

[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.

[edit] Fair use in The Very Best of Rainbow

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

1. It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
2. It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
3. Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
4. The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
5. The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.

[edit] Fair use in Ritchie Blackmore

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

1. it is a low-resolution image of a famous and influential musical performer.
2. it is only used once in the article, and it helps illustrate the text next to which it appears.
3. the image is readily available from other sources, so its use here does not make it more available than it already is.
4. it is being used to illustrate a specific era in Ritchie Blackmore's career.
5. no free images in the public domain have been located for this item.

[edit] Source

1. Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD 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.

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