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[edit] Summary

This image from Wizards of the Coast website [1] used for size consistency across product line.

[edit] Fair Use

This image is subject to copyright, but is believed to be covered under US fair use laws because:

It is a low resolution copy of the cover of a book, specifically Defenders of the Faith, published by Wizards of the Coast in May 2001.
It does not limit the copyright holder's capacity to sell the book in any way.
No free alternative is available.
It is used only for informative purposes.
The image illustrates the text next to which it appears, which describes and discusses the book in question.

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins
Description	Book cover of Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins.
Source	Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the book 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 publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	Defenders of the Faith: A Guidebook to Clerics and Paladins
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes
Purpose of use	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the book). It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	The use of the cover will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original. In particular, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the book.

[edit] Licensing

This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. 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 United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.

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current	19:36, 5 March 2008	200×263 (23 KB)	BaronTaltos (Talk \| contribs)	(Thumbnail image of D&D Supplemental Manual "Defenders of the Faith.")