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[edit] Summary

Low res scan of book cover (The Sirens of Titan, 1959 Dell first edition paperback) to illustrate article about book. Retrieved from http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/Sirens72.jpg.

[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] Fair use rationale for The Sirens of Titan

Non-free / fair use media rationale for The Sirens of Titan
Description	Book cover for The Sirens of Titan (1959 Dell first edition paperback).
Source	http://home.earthlink.net/~cjk5/Sirens72.jpg. Derived from a digital capture (scan/photo) 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 author.
Article	The Sirens of Titan
Portion used	Entire front cover is used.
Low resolution?	Yes.
Purpose of use	The primary means of visual identification for the subject of the The Sirens of Titan article.
Replaceable?	Copyrighted book cover, so no free alternative can exist.
Other information	It is unlikely that the use of a book cover in any way detracts from the commercial value of the book. If anything, it will increase sales by making the book instantly recognizable to anyone who has read the article.