File:The Collection II.png

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	A grayscale background featuring the Van Halen logo.
Author or copyright owner	Warner Records
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	[1]
Date of publication	October 6, 2023
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	The Collection II (Van Halen 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)	In view of this, the use of the file will be minimal, as it will only be displayed for identification and illustrative purposes related to the album The Collection II by Van Halen. The image will not be altered, reproduced, or used for any commercial purpose, and will appear only once in a low-resolution format consistent with fair use standards.
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 The Collection II (Van Halen album)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Collection_II.pngtrue

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

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

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.

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