Template:Non-free album cover
- 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.
- 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.
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Description
Note that this template should be used for covers from all types of audio recording releases, not just albums, despite the name of the template.
Usage
Usage is: {{Non-free album cover}}
The optional parameter |image has rationale=yes 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}}
An optional unnamed parameter, |1=, may be used to sort to a subcategory of the (default) 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.
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: