File:Sweetchild.png

Fair use rationale in Sweet Child

Although the picture is subject to copyright, I believe it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. a free alternative is not available;
2. it is a low resolution copy of an LP album cover;
3. it is only used in an article describing the album and including critical commentary;
4. it is an iconic image by a well-known artist and is important to an encyclopaedic discussion of the Sweet Child album;
5. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the album or image in any way;
6. its low resolution means that copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork;
7. its use is commensurate with usage throughout discographies and album listings across the World Wide Web.

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 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:Sweetchild.png true

To the uploader: Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For example non-free use rationales, see Wikipedia:Use rationale examples. This tag should only be used for covers of audio recording releases. Either of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Album rationale or Template:Non-free use rationale album cover. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.