File:Jonny Lang Smokin.jpg

Summary[edit]

Album cover for Smokin.

Source: [1]

Fair-use rationale for Smokin[edit]

1. The use of the image is in accordance with the fair-use licensing tag.
2. The image is of lower resolution and quality than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
3. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information. It is not replaceable.
4. The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the album or CDs in any way.
5. The image's inclusion in the article is important because it is the subject of and is discussed in the text.
6. The image is being used for informational purposes only.
7. The material has previously been published in numerous sources, with higher resolution images available elsewhere (Amazon.com, for example).

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:Jonny_Lang_Smokin.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.