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Detail of John Howe's well-known image of Gandalf. The book cover was printed a shade greener than the original!

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.

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[edit] Licensing

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,

[edit] Fair use image data

Non-free image data
Description	Cover of The Lord of the Rings.
Source	HarperCollins
Portion used	Book cover only.
Low resolution?	Sufficient resolution for illustration, but considerably lower resolution than original.
Other information	Intellectual property owned by HarperCollins.

[edit] Fair use rationale

Non-free image rationale for The Lord of the Rings
Article	The Lord of the Rings
Purpose of use	Used for purposes of illustration in an educational article about the entity represented by the image. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of this article topic.
Replaceable?	Protected by copyright, therefore a free use alternative won't exist.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:02, 17 October 2005	540×828 (105 KB)	Papeschr (Talk \| contribs)	(Image by artist John Howe, from his http://www.john-howe.com/portfolio/gallery/details.php?image_id=488 online portfolio.)