Template:Non-free album cover
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 this independent wiki, subject to its image-use policy and applicable law,
qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on this wiki or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Non-free content for more information.
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 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.
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{{Non-free album cover}} is used for covers from all types of audio recording releases, not just albums, despite the name of the template.
Usage
Parameters
|image_has_rationale=yes, optional parameter which will stop the message box in the lower part of the template from being displayed. In this case the usage is:{{Non-free album cover|image_has_rationale=yes}}|1=, optional unnamed parameter may be used to sort to a subcategory of the (default) Category:Album covers category. An example code is:|1=Album covers by visual artist, which sorts the page to that subcategory... Category:Album covers by visual artist.|auto=
See also
Either of the following templates may help, to state the rationale for non-free use. They do not replace this one but should be used in addition: