Template:Non-free magazine cover

This image is of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely held by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the cover depicted. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of magazine covers

to illustrate the publication of the issue of the magazine in question
with the publication name either visible on the image itself or written in the image description above,

on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader:

This tag should only be used for magazine covers. Do not use it for other purposes.
Please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
Consider using Template:Non-free use rationale serial publication to start the rationale

To patrollers and administrators:

If this image has an 'appropriate' rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

Note: If the image depicts a person or persons on the cover, it is not acceptable to use the image in the article of the person or persons depicted on the cover, unless used to directly illustrate a point about the publication of the image. Use of the image merely to depict a person or persons in the image will be removed.

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By default, this template adds images to Category:Fair use magazine covers, unless |category= is used to assign the image to a more specific image category: {{Non-free magazine cover | category=Fair use Playbill magazine covers}}

Sorting defaults to {{PAGENAME}}, but |title= may be used if sorting by the filename is not preferred: {{Non-free magazine cover | title=New York Times Magazine, The}}

As with the other non-free image templates, sorting by words other than the title is possible as well by using: {{Non-free magazine cover | sort key }}

Template:Non-free magazine cover

See also