Neuromancer_(Book).jpg (245 × 406 pixels, file size: 28 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
A book cover for Neuromancer by William Gibson.
Fair use for Neuromancer
editThough this image is subject to copyright, its use in the Neuromancer article is believed to be covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
- The image is only being used for informational purposes and will not interfere with commercial use by the copyright owner.
- It is an image of the book's cover, in Neuromancer, an article about the book.
- The image is not replaceable by any freely licensed image.
GhePeU 13:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)
Description |
It is an image of the book's cover, in Neuromancer, an article about the book. |
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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 | |
Portion used |
Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product. |
Low resolution? |
Yes, It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality). |
Purpose of use |
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. |
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Science fiction//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neuromancer_(Book).jpgtrue |
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
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. |
File history
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current | 00:17, 2 June 2017 | ![]() | 245 × 406 (28 KB) | DatBot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
00:27, 1 April 2006 | No thumbnail | 392 × 651 (55 KB) | Wojnicki (talk | contribs) | Reverted to earlier revision |
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