File:RaviShankar'sMusicFestivalFromIndia album cover.jpg

This is the front cover for the CD Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India by the artist Ravi Shankar. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Dark Horse Records, or the graphic artist(s).
Pictured are: (front row, L to R) Gopal Krishan, Anant Lal, Rijram Desad, Alla Rakha, Ravi Shankar, George Harrison, Shivkumar Sharma, Hariprasad Chaurasia, Sultan Khan; and (back row, L to R): Kamalesh Maitra, Satyadev Pawar, Harihar Rao, Viji Shankar, Lakshmi Shankar, Kamala Chakravarty, T.V. Gopalkrishnan, L. Subramaniam, Kumar Shankar, Kartick Kumar.

May be found at the following website: http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/store/us/detail/6197 George Harrison official website, album download page (http://www.georgeharrison.com/#/store/us/detail/6197)

Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India

The entire cover: 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.

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.

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. Commentary in the article about the cover art itself: Just the brief mention: 'The album Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India was finally released in February 1976 (March in the UK), a year and a half after the recording sessions at Friar Park. Like its predecessor's, the cover features a group portrait of all the participants, this time under a large cedar tree in the grounds of Friar Park.'. 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.

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.

I believe it satisfies criteria for fair use for a number of reasons: the image will complement an educational article about the album from which the cover illustration has been taken; the image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic; the use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original (in particular, copies of the image could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD); and it is a low resolution image. JG66 (talk) 12:27, 10 February 2012 (UTC)