File:The Greencards - Viridian.jpg

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Summary

The Greencards - Viridian album cover.

Fair use rationale for Viridian (album)

The image is of lower resolution and quality than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
No free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information.
The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the album or CDs in any way.
The image's inclusion in the article is important because it illustrates content discussed in the text.
The image is being used for informational purposes only.
The material has previously been published in numerous sources, with higher resolution images available elsewhere (Amazon.com, for example).

Non-free media information and use rationale – non-free album cover true for Viridian (album)
Description	This is the cover art for Viridian by the artist The Greencards. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Dualtone Records, or the graphic artist(s). The Greencards - Viridian album cover.
Source	http://thegreencards.com/music.html
Article	Viridian (album)
Portion used	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.
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	Section. 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. Educational. 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. Using a different image would be misleading as to the identity of the work. No
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 Viridian (album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Greencards_-_Viridian.jpgtrue

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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