Covers with rounded corners seem to have been an early trend that has now more or less disappeared. Personally I don't like to see rounded corners in my cover scans. I usually try to fill them out, and when it's just a matter of extending a single color into the corner, nobody seems to mind it.

However, on a recent cover that I scanned I ran into a problem. In order to fill out one of the rounded corners I actually had to extend a tiny bit of the artwork. I'm happy with it for my own use, but I'm not sure if I should contribute it. It is a bit of cheating. What do you think?

As a collector I think we should try to document what is actually there.

But I'm sure if I rescan and submit a cover with rounded corners replacing a straight cover I will get no votes...

I'd prefer they show rounded corners if they have rounded corners. Could help to determine if the disc I'm looking at in the pawn shop or used store is a bootleg or not. That said I recall I used to fill em in too cuz people seemed to like em more looking like that. Not a huge deal either way, but let's keep it real if possible.

I don't mind either way. And of course there's always the risk that the same UPC will turn out to exist with and without the rounded corners. If that does prove to be the case we probably don't want to go down that rabbit hole.

Personally I prefer whichever results in the clearest image. If someone wants to take a filled-in image and replace it with a higher resolution image with rounded corners that's fine.