File:Green vinyl LP.jpg

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This image was created by me, Micheal O Mealoid, on 17 July 2008, by photographing a green vinyl edition of the LP album Green by Steve Hillage

The label art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Virgin, or the graphic artist.

The label art can or could be obtained from Virgin

This image is being uploaded to be added to the article dealing with the album Green by Steve Hillage

The portion used is the entire vinyl record. Because the image is the vinyl record, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image.

The copy is, I believe, of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original record. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

Purpose of use in the Main infobox: The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for.Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public.

As musical label art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.

Use of the label art in the article complies, I believe, with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above

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:Green_vinyl_LP.jpg true