File:Sexual Eruption.jpg

Summary

Description: The cover of Snoop Dogg's "Sexual Eruption".

Source: Snoop Dogg's official website

The creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all derivative images is held by the artist or record company. Fair use is claimed regardless.

Fair use rationale for Sexual Eruption

1. No free equivalent is available.
2. The cover is intended for wide distribution and its use here does not detract from the single.
3. The cover is low resolution and only the front portion is used.
4. The cover has been previously published by retail outlets.
5. The cover meets general Wikipedia content requirements.
6. The cover meets Wikipedia's image use policy.
7. The cover is used only in the said article.
8. For an article about a single, the cover is one of the most relevant images that can be included.
9. The cover is used in the article namespace.
10. The source and copyright tag is identified for the cover.

Licensing

© Doggystyle/Geffen Records

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:Sexual_Eruption.jpg 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.