File:Taylor Swift – The Life of a Showgirl (album cover).png - Wikipedia

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Summary

Non-free media information and use rationale – non-free album cover true for The Life of a Showgirl
Description	This is the cover art for the album The Life of a Showgirl by the artist Taylor Swift. The cover art copyright is believed to belong to Taylor Swift.
Source	Swift, Taylor (October 3, 2025). "The Life of a Showgirl". United States: Apple Music. Archived from the original on August 20, 2025. Retrieved August 19, 2025.
Article	The Life of a Showgirl
Portion used	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.
Low resolution?	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.
Purpose of use	Main infobox. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone. The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and 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.
Replaceable?	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.
Other information	℗ & © 2025 Taylor Swift. Marketed by Republic Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Life of a Showgirl//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Taylor_Swift_%E2%80%93_The_Life_of_a_Showgirl_(album_cover).pngtrue

Licensing

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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.
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File history

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	Date/Time	Thumbnail	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:24, 3 October 2025		300 × 300 (56 KB)	Livelikemusic (talk \| contribs)
	10:18, 3 October 2025	No thumbnail	300 × 300 (60 KB)	Lk95 (talk \| contribs)	Correct size + compressed.
	08:53, 3 October 2025	No thumbnail	1,400 × 1,400 (3.41 MB)	Fikri Nurfadillah Rahma (talk \| contribs)	Higher resolution
	15:11, 19 August 2025	No thumbnail	300 × 300 (56 KB)	Livelikemusic (talk \| contribs)
	14:59, 19 August 2025	No thumbnail	300 × 300 (59 KB)	Livelikemusic (talk \| contribs)
	11:23, 19 August 2025	No thumbnail	316 × 316 (219 KB)	Jorge Lobo Dos Santos (talk \| contribs)	Why does it need to be compressed more? It seemed to be fair use anyways.
	04:11, 14 August 2025	No thumbnail	300 × 300 (59 KB)	Lk95 (talk \| contribs)	Compressed.
	23:03, 13 August 2025	No thumbnail	316 × 316 (219 KB)	NegativeMP1 (talk \| contribs)	Uploading a piece of non-free cover art using File Upload Wizard

File usage

The following 3 pages use this file:

The Life of a Showgirl
File:Taylor Swift - The Life of a Showgirl (album cover).png (file redirect)
File:The Life of a Showgirl - Taylor Swift album artwork.png (file redirect)