File:Mod surfin.jpg

It is contended that the use of this album cover in Surfin' M.O.D. qualifies as fair use, in the context of wikipedias fair use criteria and applicable copyright laws, for the following reasons:

1. No free or public domain images have been located for this album.
2. This image , a small portion of the overall copyrighted content, illustrates the cover of the album or associated single that is discussed in the article Surfin' M.O.D..
3. This image is used for identification purposes for the following reasons
   • This image can be used to identify the album or associated single that is the subject of this article.
   • The identification that this image provides could not be equally provided via prose alone as the album cover is directly related to the content within for the purpose of identification. This identification only qualifies when used in the article on Surfin' M.O.D. as this image is the cover of that album.
   • This image greatly increase the readers ability to identify the album over any form of prose including traditional track listing and/or an album description alone.
4. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the album in any way.
5. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
6. The image is being used in an informative way and does not detract from sales of the album.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/r12155

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:Mod_surfin.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.