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[edit] Summary

hardcover illustration by dave carson,martin mckennan and jim pitts, for the hardcover version of shadow over innsmouth edited by stephan jones for illustration of an article

first edition trade isbn 1-878252-18-6 limited isbn 1-878252-19-4 library of congress number 94-661493 1994

Fair use rationale

Usage: The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Reason: Image cover, low resolution

The image will be used for identification and critical commentary in the The Shadow Over Innsmouth article.
The use is purely for non-profit reasons, and to educate users on the author in question.
It is a low resolution image of the front book cover, making it unusable for commercial use.
It does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell or market the book in any way.
There is no known free alternative available. If a free alternative is found, this image should be nominated for deletion as obsolete.

[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.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Description	Book Cover
Source	Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the book cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	The Shadow Over Innsmouth
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	Article The Shadow Over Innsmouth. The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the book). 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 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.

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	05:18, 10 November 2007	627×431 (79 KB)	Mario94606 (Talk \| contribs)	(hardcover illustration by dave carson,martin mckennan and jim pitts, for the hardcover version of shadow over innsmouth by edited by stephan jones for illustration of an article library of congress number 94-661493)