File:Album Merchants of Cool.jpg

Fair use in Merchants of Cool[edit]

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

1. The image is used as the primary and only means of visual identification of the album in the article.
2. It is in very low resolution, and thus is not suitable for the potential production of counterfeit goods.
3. The image is not used in such a way that a reader would be confused into believing that the article is written or authorized by the owner of the album cover.
4. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image.

Licensing[edit]

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 work 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 the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Album_Merchants_of_Cool.jpg true