File:Hairspray OBC.jpg

Hairspray (2002 album) Original Broadway Cast recording

Source: [1] amazon.com

Fair use rationale for the use of this image specifically for the article on the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the musical Hairspray (musical) for the article on the audio recording of said musical, Hairspray (2002 album):

1) it is a low resolution copy of the CD cover,

2) it is the primary visual representation in the article about the audio recording Hairspray (2002 album), describing the recording of the Broadway production of Hairspray (musical) recorded on the CD;

3) using this image does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD,

4) its use will not enable the distribution of pirated copies of the record;

5) it is used on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, and

6) the image cannot be replaced by a free 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:Hairspray_OBC.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.