File:Dead Bands Party A Tribute To Oingo Boingo.jpg

Album cover for Dead Bands Part: A Tribute To Oingo Boingo, contributed to by many artists.

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:Dead_Bands_Party_A_Tribute_To_Oingo_Boingo.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.

1. The image is of a lower resolution than the original cover. Therefore, copies will be of a lower quality than the original.
2. The image only represents a small percentage of the actual product and its inclusion in Wikipedia does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the photograph or the album in any way.
3. The image is being used non-profit informational purposes only.

According to Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976:

"The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment,...scholarship...is not an infringement of copyright."  [1]

The image is used for non-profit purposes. This factor is noted as relevant by the Act.

1. Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.