Fair use in The Tommyknockers

It is believed that the use of this image in the article The Tommyknockers qualifies as fair use because:

• it is a relatively low resolution copy
• it illustrates an educational article on the book from which the cover illustration was taken
• it is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic
• the use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work, as copies could not be used to produce illegal copies of the book
• there is no free alternative available of the same 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:Tommyknockers.jpg true