File:MaryChapinCarpenterStateoftheHeart.jpg

Fair use in Mary Chapin Carpenter[edit]

It is believed that this image, MaryChapinCarpenterStateoftheHeart, is subject to fair use in the article Mary Chapin Carpenter because:

1. This image is used to represent the album.
2. It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
3. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
4. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.
5. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.
6. No free or public domain images have been located for this item

Fair use in State of the Heart (Mary Chapin Carpenter album)[edit]

It is believed that this image, MaryChapinCarpenterStateoftheHeart, is subject to fair use in the article State of the Heart (Mary Chapin Carpenter album) because:

1. This image is used to represent the album.
2. It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
3. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the work in any way.
4. This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.
5. The image is being used in an informative way and should not detract from the original work.
6. No free or public domain images have been located for this item

Summary[edit]

Scanned commercially available album cover. Image is front album cover, used as primary means of identifying the subject of the article. It has been reduced to approximately one-third of the surface area of the original image (the area of the original album cover from which it was scanned). It is not replaceable by a free image because it is the most relevant image to use in the discussion of this particular subject (the album). Original photograph is by Randee St. Nicholas; art direction by Bill Johnson.

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:MaryChapinCarpenterStateoftheHeart.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.