[mb-users] Adding links to your own cover scans?

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Hi!

My problem is this: almost all the releases I edit are Chinese
releases which haven't been released on Amazon or any other of our
cover art partners. They also don't exist in a resolution where you
can read the names on any site which would be possible to form a
partnership with, at least not that I have found.

There are also releases which are simply out of date, things which you
won't even find in any online record store again.

For such cases like these, if I have a cover scan myself which I want
to make available, what would you suggest? That it is legally possible
should be clear from what Wikipedia does. No matter what the method,
doing it over archive.org seems reasonable. If I find something on
some very random place (a forum, a blog, photo album) is is reasonable
to simply make a archive.org (described in
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CoverArtSites) copy and use that?

If I have a cover but it doesn't exist on any public website, would it
be ok to put it on a webserver of my own, throw archive.org at it and
submit it to MusicBrainz? I know that I would  be commiting a crime
(in some territories), but I don't think archive.org would and
MusicBrainz certainly wouldn't.

I repeat that my intention isn't to do this for Metallica or something
which can already be provided via another cover partner, but for all
the rare stuff I edit where I think having a cover greatly improves
the quality of the database.

Thoughts?

Philip