File:Hardwired... To Self-Destruct Album Cover.jpeg

Summary

Media data and Non-free use rationale
Description	The album cover of Hardwired... To self
Author or copyright owner	Metallica
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	https://www.metallica.com/news/429181.html
Date of publication	November 18th, 2016
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	Hardwired... to Self-Destruct
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)	n.a.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The file will be used exclusively as a visual identification of the work in question.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	n.a.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Hardwired... to Self-Destruct//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hardwired..._To_Self-Destruct_Album_Cover.jpegtrue

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.
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