Summary

Fair use in New Art/Science Affinities

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws, and the stricter requirements of Wikipedia's non-free content policies, because:

1. It illustrates an educational article about the entity that cover represents.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the book.
3. It is a low resolution image, and thus not suitable for production of counterfeit goods.
4. The cover is available for free in electronic form on the internet as fairuse < http://millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu/nasabook/newartscienceaffinities.pdf>.
5. It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

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:Coversm.jpg true