File:Allister-Before the Blackout.jpg

Summary

Album artwork for Allister's Before the Blackout (2005). Source: Amazon

Fair use for Before the Blackout

Despite the picture being subject to copyright, the linked image is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a picture of an album cover, representing a small percentage of the actual product. The copyright owners' rights to sell the CD are in no way limited by the inclusion in WikiPedia;
2. Due to the image's low resolution and resulting lack of detail, it could not be used to manufacture illegal copies of the CD or its artwork;
3. The image is used for non-profit educational purposes only, for identification of the album.
4. There are no alternatives of illustrating said album cover that would not fall under fair use laws. --HarryCane 16:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

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:Allister-Before_the_Blackout.jpg true