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2 Fair Use for Vault of the Drow
3 Licensing
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[edit] Summary

Description	Book cover, Vault of the Drow by Gary Gygax (1981 re-issue)
Source	copyright Wizards of the Coast, URL = http://wizards.com/
Date	1981
Author	Original cover artwork by Erol Otus
Permission (Reusing this image)	Fair use of copyrighted material (book cover)

[edit] Fair Use for Vault of the Drow

Scanned and uploaded by User:Wwagner. This is fair use because:

the image is for nonprofit educational purposes only
it is a low-res copy of a book cover, which could not be used to make illegal copies of the book's cover art
it does not limit the copyright holder's ability to sell copies of this book

[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] Original uploader information

14:37, 23 May 2006 . . Wwagner (Talk | contribs) . . 600×777 (142,361 bytes) (==Fair Use for Vault of the Drow== Scanned and uploaded by User:Wwagner. This is fair use because: * the image is for nonprofit educational purposes only * it is a low-res copy of an book cover, which could not be used to make illegal copies of th)