File:City-of-saints-and-madmen-2nd-ed-dustjacket.jpg

Licensing edit

This image is of book cover(s), and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover(s) or the publisher of the book(s). 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 the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:City-of-saints-and-madmen-2nd-ed-dustjacket.jpg true

The dustjacket is used to illustrate City of Saints and Madmen's sui generis approach to design, and the resolution is low enough to make the copyrighted text unreadable. It was taken from the Prime Books edition, 2002. Art by Scott Eagle, design by Garry Nurrish.

Fair use rationale edit

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

1. It is a low resolution copy of a book cover.
2. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
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 book.
4. It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
5. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of topics in the article.
6. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Strangerer (Talk) 16:39, 6 June 2007 (UTC)