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Description: This is a flatbed scan of the book cover for the 2001 edition of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. The image was reduced in size 80% and a drop shadow added using Paint Shop Pro.
Size: 262 × 340 pixels.

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.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Description	Book Cover
Source	Scan of book cover. It is believed that the copyright is held by the publisher Wizards of the Coast.
Article	Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes, small-size.
Purpose of use	Article Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the role-playing game sourcebook), which is described in the article. It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	The use of the cover will not 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.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Forgotten Realms
Description	Book Cover
Source	Scan of book cover. It is believed that the copyright is held by the publisher Wizards of the Coast.
Article	Forgotten Realms
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes, small-size.
Purpose of use	Article Forgotten Realms. The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the role-playing game sourcebook). In this case it is used in the article that discusses the campaign setting of a set of sourcebooks, and as such is used for identifying the sourcebooks that compose the campaign setting.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	The use of the cover will not 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.