File:Official Album Cover of "The Downward Spiral" by Nine Inch Nails.png

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Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale

Description

This is the cover art for the album The Downward Spiral by the artist Nine Inch Nails. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Nothing/Interscope, or the graphic artist(s), Russell Mills.

Author or
copyright owner

Russell Mills

Source (WP:NFCC#4)

http://nin.com/discography/

Date of publication

1994

Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)

The Downward Spiral

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. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone. The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for. Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public.

Not replaceable with
free media because (WP:NFCC#1)

As musical cover art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary. Using a different image would be misleading as to the identity of the work.

Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)

The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

Respect for
commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)

n.a.

Other information

Aside from the claim that this file qualifies for use without permission under fair use, this file is also available under a license that permits educational, personal, or otherwise non-commercial use only. Files available under such terms do not meet the definition of Free Cultural Works as adopted by the Wikimedia Foundation, and are therefore considered non-free on Wikipedia and may only be used under Wikipedia's non-free content policy.
This tag must only be used with a non-free license tag and a valid fair use rationale as required by policy.

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Downward Spiral//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Official_Album_Cover_of_%22The_Downward_Spiral%22_by_Nine_Inch_Nails.pngtrue

Licensing

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.

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File usage

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The Downward Spiral

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