File:Adieu False Heart.jpg

cover of a CD album.

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
2. It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
3. Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
4. The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
5. The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.
6. It is a low resolution used to promote the release of a Linda Ronstadt album
7. According to section 107 of the United States Copyright Act of 1976: "The fair use of a copyrighted work...for purposes such as criticism, comment,...scholarship...is not an infringement of copyright."  [1]
8. The image is of considerably lower resolution than the original, and it is used for non-profit purposes. These two factors are noted as relevant by the Act.
9. No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information in a historical context.
10. It is a historically significant photo of famous individuals
11. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
12. It is only used to identify what the subjects look like
13. This is a non-profit organization and we do not profit from the use of this image

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:Adieu_False_Heart.jpg true