The image is irreplaceable; a free image of similar educational value is not available
Only a small portion of the copyrighted commercial work is used
The image is used solely for educational purposes, as primary means of visual identification of the audio recording in question, in an article about the album
The use of this image does not compete with the copyright holders' usage; it does not affect the holders' ability to sell the audio recording
The image is of inferior quality compared to that of an original, having been reduced to a low resolution, and it is therefore unlikely that this image could be used to make duplicates of the album cover
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,