File:State of Affairs1996.jpg

fair use album cover from amazon.com

It is contended that the use of this album cover in State of Affairs (Kool & the Gang album) qualifies as fair use for the following reasons:

1. This image illustrates the cover of the album or associated single that is discussed in the article.
2. The image is only a small portion of the overall product.
3. This image can be used to identify the album or associated single that is the subject of this article.
4. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to market or sell the album in any way.
5. The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
6. The image is being used in an informative way and does not detract from sales of the album.
7. No free or public domain images have been located for this album.

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 //en.wiki.x.io/wiki/File:State_of_Affairs1996.jpg true

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.