File:Blind Guardian - The God Machine.jpg

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Summary[edit]

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	Cover art for the new Blind Guardian album The God Machine.
Author or copyright owner	Peter Mohrbacher
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=551483349677705&set=a.211738786985498
Date of publication	May 2022
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	The God Machine (album)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Any derivative work based upon the cover art would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	This is the cover of an album that will be used for its own article.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution image of a work's cover will not impact the commercial viability of the work.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The God Machine (album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blind_Guardian_-_The_God_Machine.jpgtrue

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

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.

File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	02:23, 26 January 2024		316 × 316 (84 KB)	FMSky (talk \| contribs)	Reverted to version as of 00:00, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
	02:23, 26 January 2024	No thumbnail	316 × 316 (66 KB)	FMSky (talk \| contribs)	better quality
	00:00, 20 May 2022	No thumbnail	316 × 316 (84 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	21:12, 18 May 2022	No thumbnail	1,500 × 1,500 (521 KB)	MetalDiablo666 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a piece of non-free cover art using File Upload Wizard

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The God Machine (album)