File:Thefeelers-playgroundbattle.jpg

Fair Use Rationale for Thefeelers-playgroundbattle.jpg[edit]

What is this image and what is its purpose?
A small, low-res unadulterated image of a The Feelers CD album cover, for use in illustrating The Feelers and the Playground Battle articles. The image represents a substantial proportion of the musical output of the subject and is a primary means of visual identification of that subject.
What is the source of this image and who is the copyright holder?
The source of this image is http://www.smokecds.com/cd/33909?osCsid=d5ok7lj2tibc7dci2tj2d50et3. The image is also freely available from the official Feelers website - http://www.thefeelers.co.nz/discography.php . The copyright holder is The Feelers.
What proportion of the relevant copyright does this image represent?
Image represents a very small part of the copyright for this CD (consisting only of an image of the front cover and no part of the music or other graphics).
Is the image replaceable with a free image?
The image is not replaceable with a free image, as any alternative representation of this image would also be subject to the same copyright.
Any other information that may be relevant
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by US fair use laws because:

1. It is a very low resolution copy of a CD album cover as outlined above. Any lower resolution would make the image unreadable;
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD album in any way; and
3. Copies could not realistically be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.

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:Thefeelers-playgroundbattle.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.