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[edit] Summary
[edit] Summary
Non-free / fair use media rationale for Earth Abides | |
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Description |
1949 Random House first edition of Earth Abides. Illustrator H. Lawrence Hoffman. |
Source |
scanned book cover from the collection of Donald M. Scott. |
Article | |
Portion used |
front cover |
Low resolution? |
Yes |
Purpose of use |
to illustrate an article discussing the book in question Earth Abides, and an article H. Lawrence Hoffman about the illustrator. |
Replaceable? |
no copyright-free version available |
[edit] Fair use rationale
Fair use in Earth Abides
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- It illustrates an educational article about the book (the 1949 Houghton Mifflin hardcover edition of the Earth Abides from which the cover illustration was taken). The book was copyrighted 1949.
- It contributes to a critical commentary about the book.
- The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topics.
- The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.
- It is a low resolution image.
- The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
- It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
[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
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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