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 album 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 United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. For an example fair use rationale, see here.
Fair use rationale
| Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Dark Side of the Moon | |
|---|---|
| Description |
Cover for the album The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd. |
| Source |
Derived from a scan of the album 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. |
| Article |
The Dark Side of the Moon |
| Portion used |
Entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork |
| Low resolution? |
Is only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy. |
| Purpose of use |
Illustrates the articles The Dark Side of the Moon and Storm Thorgerson which both provide enough critical commentary for fair use to be applicible. |
| Replaceable? |
No free equivalent can equal this image (any would be a derivative of this artwork) |
| Other information | Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the album as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves. |
For full information on this image, see its image description page on Wikipedia.
