File:Rextrailer78rpm.jpg

Summary[edit]

Fair use for Rex Trailer:

Though this image which I have myself photographed from the cover of a 79 rpm Rex Trailer vinyl record is subject to copyright by ABC Paramount, its use here is regardless covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

• It representatively illustrates an educational article about the recording artist; its inclusion in the article adds significantly to understanding the text because it is a historical artifact of the part of the life covered in the critical commentary. Therefore the image substantially improves the educational value of the article.

• The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the very recording referred to in the article section, and directly concerns the presentation of the singer to the public at the time in history.

• It is of much lower resolution than the original. Any potential copies made from it would be of very inferior quality unsuitable for any commercial purpose. The image is not used here for profit, and its use on Wikipedia does not compete with the copyright holder, ABC Paramount, and such use does not decrease the value of the copyright to its holder.

• It is not in any way replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image pertinent to the article subject, because the whole body of work by Trailer under discussion in this section of the article is copyrighted by the record company.

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:Rextrailer78rpm.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.