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Martin Cruz Smith, Random House

[edit] Fair Use rationale for Polar Star (novel)

Though originally copyright, the image MCS PolarStar.jpg is believed subject to fair use due to:

Used only in said page for encyclopedia purposes;
it is a low resolution copy of a book's cover image;
it does not limit the copyright owners rights to sell the product in any way;
copies could not be used to make illegal reproductions of this image;
this image is displayed on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.

[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.