File:Koontz's Velocity book cover.jpg
Koontz's_Velocity_book_cover.jpg (248 × 400 pixels, file size: 27 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Summary[edit]
| Description |
This is the front cover art for the book Velocity written by Dean Koontz. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, Bantam Publishing, or the cover artist. |
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| Source |
It is believed that the cover art can or could be obtained from Bantam Publishing. |
| Article | |
| Portion used |
The entire front cover. Because the image is a book cover, a form of product packaging, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image. |
| Low resolution? |
The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original book cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork. |
| Purpose of use |
Section. The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone. The image is placed at the beginning of a section discussing the work, to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for. Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original work, namely the book cover creator's ability to provide book cover design services and in turn marketing books to the public. |
| Replaceable? |
As a book cover, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the book would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary. Using different image would be misleading as to the identity of the work. |
| Other information |
Use of the book cover in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above. |
| Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Velocity (novel)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Koontz%27s_Velocity_book_cover.jpgtrue | |
Non-free/fair use media rationale[edit]
Although this image is subject to copyright, it is covered by US fair use laws because:
- The image is only being used in the article about the book (Velocity (novel)) for informational and educational purposes.
- Use of the book cover visually identifies the book and its author in a manner that mere prose cannot, and meets all criteria in WP:NFCC.
- 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.
- The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
- The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
- The image is a low resolution image of the book cover, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
- The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
- The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
- 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.
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 | 06:12, 15 November 2017 | | 248 × 400 (27 KB) | Theo's Little Bot (talk | contribs) | Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable) |
| 00:28, 12 March 2006 | No thumbnail | 310 × 500 (50 KB) | KF (talk | contribs) |
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