File:Silver princess cover.jpg

Description

Cover of The Silver Princess in Oz by Ruth Plumly Thompson, illustrated by John R. Neill.

Non-free/fair use media rationale in The Silver Princess in Oz

Although this image is subject to copyright, it is covered by US fair use laws because:

1. The image is only being used in the article about the book (The Silver Princess in Oz) for informational and educational purposes.
2. Use of the book cover visually identifies the book and its author in a manner that mere prose cannot, and meets all criteria in
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3. This image enhances the article in which it's displayed, as it provides an immediate relevance to the reader more capably than the textual description alone.
4. The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
5. The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
6. The image is a low resolution image of the book cover, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
7. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
8. The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
9. The use of this image will not limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute or make a profit from the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.

Source

1. Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the Film Poster/ VHS or DVD 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 film company or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.

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:Silver_princess_cover.jpg true