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[edit] Summary

Existing cover image is full-scan size. This smaller image from the Wizards of the Coast web product listing [www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/881610000] used for size consistency across product line.

[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.

[edit] Fair use

This image is subject to copyright, but is believed to be covered under US fair use laws because:

It is a low resolution copy of the cover of a book, specifically Book of Vile Darkness, published by Wizards of the Coast in October 2002.
It does not limit the copyright holder's capacity to sell the book in any way.
No free alternative is available.
It is used only for informative purposes.
The image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes and discusses the book in question.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	07:37, 26 November 2006	200×260 (48 KB)	Serpent's Choice (Talk \| contribs)	(Existing cover image is full-scan size. This smaller image from the Wizards of the Coast web product listing [www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=products/dndacc/881610000] used for size consistency across product line.)