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Non-free / fair use media rationale - non-free book cover - for American Psycho
Description	This is the front book cover art for the book American Psycho by the author(s) Bret Easton Ellis. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, Vintage Books, New York or the cover artist, Marshall Arisman.
Source	It is believed that the cover art can or could be obtained from Vintage Books, New York.
Article	American Psycho
Portion used	The entire front cover. Because the image is a book cover, 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 book 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	Section. 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 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 work, namely the book cover creator's ability to provide book cover design services and in turn marketing books to the public.
Replaceable?	As a book cover, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the book would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary. Using different image would be misleading as to the identity of the work.
Other information	Use of the book cover in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

Taken from the modernist book, as only the old one exists on the page.

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers

to illustrate an article discussing the book 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 United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	15:06, 30 September 2005	640×1,008 (76 KB)	Kilo-Lima (Talk \| contribs)	(Sorry for all of this, I have finally removed ALL of the scrappy bits from the photograph. Straightened the picture slightly.)
	14:59, 30 September 2005	656×1,040 (80 KB)	Kilo-Lima (Talk \| contribs)	(Taken from the front cover of the book, (updated), removed the background "shadow" you sometimes don't see when you scan a book.)
	14:52, 30 September 2005	656×1,024 (82 KB)	Kilo-Lima (Talk \| contribs)	(Taken from the modernest book, as only the old one exists on the page.)