File:John McGahern - The Dark.jpg

Summary edit

Cover of paperback edition of "The Dark", a novel by John McGahern. The image is intended for illustrative use in the article about that book, and has been reduced in resolution for fair-use. Source = http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/18867/lot/25/

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:John_McGahern_-_The_Dark.jpg true

Fair use rationale for use in the article The Dark (McGahern novel) edit

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

1. The image is only being used in the article about the book for informational and educational purposes.
2. The image is of the first edition of the book.
3. The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
4. The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
5. The image is a low resolution image, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
8. The use of this image will not 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.