User:Reosarevok/CAABlurb
MusicBrainz and the Internet Archive are cooperating to create the Cover Art Archive. Why does this even matter, you say? Well, cover art is used by apps and other online projects to make their content more complete and nicer to look at. It is also, as you certainly know, displayed in many modern music players for similar reasons. However, there isn’t a cleanly organized, publicly available resource where everyone can access these images. You can use Amazon product images, but your project needs to be able to abide by their Terms of Service, which doesn’t work for everyone. Many projects use Google Images to try to source their cover art, but the chances of finding the wrong image are relatively high.
The Cover Art Archive aims to solve these problems by making these images available to the public without jumping through hoops and without guessing (you can use our API for that). But since we are not lawyers, we can not say what can and can not be done with these. So use them at your own risk! That said, everyone on the internet is using these images anyway and the common understanding is that if you’re selling music you’re pretty safe. We suggest that when you try to figure out what to do, make sure that you respect the artists and their labels and make the music world a better place.
For some stunning examples of what people have already done with the Cover Art Archive, please take a look at these links:
Jerry Lee Lewis: The Ultimate: The Sun Years. 109 images that carefully document a large box set.
ベスト☆きらり A Japanese release with lots of fun and colorful images.
So far, we’ve collected nearly 115,000 images that are attached to 64,000 releases for a 6% coverage in MusicBrainz. That’s not a bad start, but we need your help to go further! Won’t you please consider uploading some images to this archive? To get started, log in with your MusicBrainz account (or create a new one), find your favorite release and then click on the cover art tab to view the existing pieces of art and/or upload new ones. For more details, see our How to add cover art guide. Of course, if you ever find an image is linked to the wrong release, you can also fix it from MusicBrainz.
