File:Misfits jubilee album cover.jpg

This is the Front Cover for the LP Album Misfit's Jubilee by the artist Jim White. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the label, Fluff & Gravy (U.S.) and Loose Music (U.K. and Europe), or the graphic artist(s), Jim White and Ben Prisk, art direction by The Visual Strategist.

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Misfit's Jubilee

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.

Header. 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 at the beginning of the article or section discussing the work, to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for. To show album artwork on Wikipedia page. Commentary in the article about the cover art itself: Article notes that Jim White is both the album singer and he created the artwork for the album as well. 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. Using a different image as a header would be misleading as to the identity of the work.

Copyright Fair Use for promotion of a musical work.

Fair use in Misfit's Jubilee

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

1. It illustrates educational articles about the album from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. 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 LP.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.