On 11/15/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Then I would advise you not to look at the Album_covers category.
Actually, I suspect the album covers have a better claim to fair use than most others, since one cannot illustrate an article on an album of recorded music by identifying the album's appearance in any other way. Furthermore, the use of the album art to identify it is generally permitted without compensation by the record labels, and thus they cannot claim that our screen-sized images of album covers detract from their commercial uses of their copyrighted material. Large-sized reproductions of album art DO have commercial value (e.g. posters), so it is important that we only reproduce small versions of them.
Furthermore, photos of album art are accurate reproductions of 2D artwork and thus do not create a new copyright under Bridgeman vs. Corel, thus there is no additional photography copyright to consider.
-Matt