File:CKFunkThis.jpg

Licensing[edit]

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:CKFunkThis.jpg true

To the uploader: 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. To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an appropriate rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

Fair use in Chaka Khan and Funk This[edit]

Though this copyrighted image's use is permissible according to U.S. fair use laws for the following reasons:

1. This is a low resolution version of the album/single cover.
2. The inclusion of this image does not damage the image's owner's right to sell the album/single.
3. This cannot feasibly be used to create illegal copies of the album/single.
4. The image relates directly to a mention of the recording in the article.
5. This image was made famous by Chaka Khan and is therefore significant to this article.