File:Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack.jpg - Wikipedia

This is the cover art for the Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to the record label or the graphic artist(s).

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Discography of the Final Fantasy VII series

The entire cover: because the image is cover art, a form of product packaging, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image.

The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

This packaging, the visualization chosen by the developers to represent the product, is used in this article to facilitate, among others, identification and accurate representation of the soundtrack album in the context of critical commentary. The image is placed at the beginning of a section discussing the work, to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for. Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original artwork, namely the artist's providing graphic design services to music concerns and in turn marketing music to the public. The cover displays a frame from the opening movie of Final Fantasy VII, identifies the album as that of Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack, and states that Nobuo Uematsu is the composer, arranger, and producer of the album.

As musical cover art, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the music would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary.

Use of the cover art in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under the copyright law of the United States as described above.

• 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.