File:The Sound of Bakersfield LP.jpg

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Summary

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Description	"The Sound of Bakersfiled" compilation album of surf music
Author or copyright owner	unknown
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	Photo of the cover of the album in my personal collection
Date of publication	1964
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Gene Moles
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)	The photo is intentionally of low quality so there is no commercial potential.
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.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Gene Moles//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Sound_of_Bakersfield_LP.jpgtrue

Licensing

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

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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.
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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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