File:Converge Decibel 2006 Cover.gif

Summary[edit]

Converge appearing on the cover of Decibel magazine, December 2006. Taken from Decibel's MySpace page.

Fair Use for Decibel (magazine)[edit]

The image Image:Converge Decibel 2006 Cover.gif is being linked here; though the picture is originally copyright, I believe this image is covered by U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is a low-resolution scan of a magazine cover;
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this purpose. While public domain images may exist for the subject of the article, none has been located that is recent, nor do they adequately illustrate the points in the band's career that are discussed in the accompanying text;
3. The image does not limit the copyright holders' ability to market the magazine in any way; and
4. The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the band or their work in any way.

The Phantomnaut (talk) 03:24, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Licensing[edit]

This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, 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.

Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use true