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Non-free media information and use rationale true for Groovy
Description	Cover of the 1965 single "The Sound of Silence"/"We've Got a Groovey Thing Gon'"
Source	Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the single 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 publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	Groovy
Portion used	Front cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject ("We've Got a Groovey Thing Goin'"). It illustrates educational articles about the song from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this song's cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	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 could not be used to make illegal copies of the song.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Groovy//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soundofsilence.jpgtrue

Fair use in The Sounds of Silence (song)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover.
It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist.

Source

http://rateyourmusic.com/misc/link_image?album_id=183565&q=+Simon+and+Garfunkel+The+Sounds+of+Silence+%2f+We%26%2339%3bve+Got+a+Groovey+Thing+Goin%26%2339%3b
Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD 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.

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

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:21, 22 September 2014		300 × 300 (25 KB)	Saginaw-hitchhiker (talk \| contribs)	cleaner
	19:45, 2 October 2013	No thumbnail	280 × 281 (71 KB)	Bubba73 (talk \| contribs)	improve contrast a little so it doesn't look so faded

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