File:Album cover for "Action" by the Blackbyrds.png

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Summary

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Description	This is the cover picture for the 1977 album "Action" by the band The Blackbyrds.
Author or copyright owner	Gerald Panopolous (photographer) / Fantasy Records (publisher)
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	A page on the band's official website: https://www.blackbyrdsmusic.com/music
Date of publication	September 1, 1977
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Action (Blackbyrds Album)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	to serve as the primary means of visual identification at the top of the article dedicated to the work in question.
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	Any derivative work based upon the cover art would be a copyright violation, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	There will only be one example of the picture at the top of the wiki page for identification.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution image of a work's cover will not impact the commercial viability of the work.
Other information	I think it's a pretty cool cover, personally
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Action (Blackbyrds Album)//wiki.riteme.site/wiki/File:Album_cover_for_%22Action%22_by_the_Blackbyrds.pngtrue

Licensing

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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

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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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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	00:00, 19 October 2024		315 × 316 (171 KB)	DatBot (talk \| contribs)	Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
	04:30, 18 October 2024	No thumbnail	697 × 700 (726 KB)	What'sTheMatterWithYourHair (talk \| contribs)	more accurate, unobscured image
	04:24, 18 October 2024	No thumbnail	729 × 736 (839 KB)	What'sTheMatterWithYourHair (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a piece of non-free cover art using File Upload Wizard

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