File:Pink Floyd-Animals-Frontal.jpg
Pink_Floyd-Animals-Frontal.jpg (300 × 300 pixels, file size: 139 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary
[edit]This image qualifies for fair use to be featured in the infobox for the main article, Animals (album) as per the following information below:
Description |
Cover for the album Animals by Pink Floyd (depicting Battersea Power Station) |
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Source |
Derived from a scan of the album cover |
Portion used |
Entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork |
Low resolution? |
Is only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy |
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
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 rationale: This is an image of lower quality than the original and is believed to qualify as fair use as it is only used to illustrate the album in question.
Description |
This is the front cover for the album Animals by the artist Pink Floyd. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to Pink Floyd Music, Ltd. |
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Source |
May be found at the following website: http://www.pinkfloyd.com/ Derived from a scan of the album cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless. |
Article | |
Portion used |
The entire front cover, but does not include back or insides of original artwork. Because the image is cover art, a form of product packaging, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image. |
Low resolution? |
Yes, 300x300px, per Non-free content criteria according to Wikipedia:Non-free content. Only as much resolution as necessary to identify and show the style of artwork used for the article, not enough to be used for piracy. |
Purpose of use |
Main infobox. 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. Section. For use in article section "Animals". 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 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. 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 used for explication of critical commentary on the cover image and its significance, as well as for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. In the immediate context, the ability to view the image specifically explicates elements of the article, including how the cover's nature was not only a fairly novel one, but it was also complementary to the musical content of the album. (Source: Blake, Mark (2008). Comfortably Numb—The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81752-6. pp.245–246). In the general context of the article, it also shows the cultural impact of their visual style and its transformations throughout their career as an important element of the band's significance.(Source: Blake, ibid, pp.224–227) As described in the accompanying text, the album is itself of exceptional significance to the band's history. (Source: Blake, ibid, pp.245–246) Roger Waters influenced the final design.(Source: Blake, ibid, pp.245–246) The use of the image in this location and context makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone. 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.. 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.. 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.. 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. |
Replaceable? |
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. 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. 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. 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. Image in this form is already widely distributed to identify the album as part of catalogs and reviews, so we degrade no market value by providing it ourselves. |
Other information |
Use of the cover art in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under the copyright law of the United States as described above. |
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Animals (Pink Floyd album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pink_Floyd-Animals-Frontal.jpgtrue |
File history
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current | 20:15, 1 January 2019 | 300 × 300 (139 KB) | Vladislav Volcheck (talk | contribs) | HQ version, 1st UK vinyl pressing | |
13:40, 26 November 2016 | No thumbnail | 316 × 315 (18 KB) | Mindmatrix (talk | contribs) | Reverted to delete high-res version, which fails WP:NFCC#3 part b for non-free image use | |
06:07, 8 March 2015 | No thumbnail | 316 × 315 (18 KB) | Theo's Little Bot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) | |
01:55, 28 February 2015 | No thumbnail | 600 × 599 (102 KB) | TheKirby64 (talk | contribs) | Change it to high quality. | |
21:39, 26 December 2007 | No thumbnail | 300 × 300 (20 KB) | Dream out loud (talk | contribs) |
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