File:GarthNix Shade'sChildren HB.jpg

Fair use for Shade's Children

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use in the Shade's Children article is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of very inferior quality).
2. The photo is only being used for informational purposes.
3. It is an image of the book's cover, in an article discussing the book. It thereby adds to the article in question.
4. The image is not replaceable by any freely licensed image.

Nihiltres^(t.c.s) 17:29, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Licensing

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:GarthNix_Shade%27sChildren_HB.jpg true