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Cover scan of The Americans by Robert Frank, sixth printing, 1997.

[edit] Fair use in The Americans

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. The image illustrates the most recent edition of the book, in the context of an academic and historical explanation of that book.
4. 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.
5. It is a low resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The book and its contents are copyrighted, so this image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

[edit] Fair use in Robert Frank

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the artist who authored the photographic book from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the book, which is a highly significant topic discussed at length within the article Robert Frank.
3. 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.
4. It is a low resolution image.
5. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
6. The book and its contents are copyrighted, so this image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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.

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