It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the CD/album in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the album artwork on another CD.
The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
The image on the cover is significant because it was made by a famous artist, Jefferson Starship.
Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) of the album/CD cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the record company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
This DOES hold up under the 10 criteria for non-free content:
No free equivalent
Respect for Commercial Opportunities -- it is the same image as used in vendor's sales catalogs and will encourage sales.
Minimal use -- used only in the article on said album
Published on a fan web-site which was referenced in the original upload
Content is encyclopedic - references the album in the article
Falls under fair-use - copyright Rainman, image used by others to showcase album
Used in one-article on said album
Significant to the article itself -- it is the image of the subject being discussed in the article.
Located only in the article itself
Source of image and copyright noted
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,
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.
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
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Image from fan-page at http://www1.odn.ne.jp/~cak38700/JS/ExtraVirginSky.htm. Original copyright Rainman. ==Fair Use in
Deep Space / Virgin Sky== #It's a low resolution copy of a CD/album cover. #It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell
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