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[edit] Summary

Obtained from Amazon ([1]) on 1 February 2008.

Usual fairuse rationale for book covers applies.

[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 in Collins Bird Guide

This work is copyrighted and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content#Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content#Audio clips. However, it is believed that the use of this work in the article "Collins Bird Guide" :

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation ([2]),

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.

To the uploader: this tag is not a sufficient claim of fair use. You must also include the source of the work, all available copyright information, and a detailed non-free use rationale.

Use of this copyrighted image in article w:en:Collins Bird Guide is believed to be fair use on the grounds that:

It is a low resolution image that cannot be used to reproduce the cover at commercial quality
Such images are freely available on the internet from multiple sources
Use of the image will not detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell the book; indeed it may reasonably be expected to enhance it
Use of the image adds signicantly to the article as it directly illustrates the subject of the article.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	17:52, 1 February 2008	500×500 (38 KB)	SP-KP (Talk \| contribs)	(Obtained from Amazon ([http://www.amazon.com]) on 1 February 2008. Usual fairuse rationale for book covers applies.)