File:PIL - Metal Box original.jpg

PIL - Metal Box original. Picture of my copy taken by me Ian Dunster 15:17, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Public Image Limited's Metal Box (Metal 1) showing one of the disadvantages of this unusual form of packaging - rusty fingerprints.

Fair use in Punk rock[edit]

While the substantive content of the image—a 16mm film canister embossed with Public Image Ltd.'s PiL logo, designed to hold the three 12" records that originally constituted the album Metal Box—is presumptively under copyright by John Lydon and/or Virgin Records, its use in the article punk rock is believed to meet with Wikipedia's fair use image policy because:

1. it is a low-resolution reproduction;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the album in any way;
3. it does not interfere with the copyright owner's ability to promote the album in any way;
4. it is being used only for informational purposes; and
5. its inclusion adds significantly to the article because it illustrates one of the most important albums of the post-punk phenomenon and one of the most famed and innovative of all rock album packaging designs as described in the accompanying text and as detailed in the cited sources, namely Reynolds's Rip It Up and Start Again and Miles, Scott, and Morgan's The Greatest Album Covers of All Time.

Fair use in Metal Box[edit]

While the substantive content of the image—a 16mm film canister embossed with Public Image Ltd.'s PiL logo, designed to hold the three 12" records that originally constituted the album Metal Box—is presumptively under copyright by John Lydon and/or Virgin Records, its use in the article Metal Box is believed to meet with Wikipedia's fair use image policy because:

1. it is a low-resolution reproduction;
2. it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the album in any way;
3. it does not interfere with the copyright owner's ability to promote the album in any way;
4. it is being used only for informational purposes; and
5. its inclusion adds significantly to the article because it illustrates the titular article topic.

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PIL_-_Metal_Box_original.jpg true

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