nme Blur Oasis.jpg

Summary

Cover of the 12 August 1995 issue of NME advertising the chart battle between the Britpop groups Blur and Oasis.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/feb/26/nme-60-editors-favourite-covers

Fair use Rationale for Britpop

I, WesleyDodds 11:33, 7 October 2007 (UTC), believe that this image is fair use, as:

1. The image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell or market the work in any way.
3. It is used for critical commentary of the cover to this particular issue.
4. No free equivalent exists.

Fair use Rationale for NME

1. The image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
2. It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell or market the work in any way.
3. It is used to illustrate commentary directly related to the image
4. No free equivalent exists.

Licensing

This image is a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the newspaper or the individual contributors who worked on the articles or images depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of newspaper pages to illustrate either the publication of the article or issue in question, with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above, on the English-language Wiki, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wiki 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 Wiki: Non-free content for more information. Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nme_blur_oasis.jpg true