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[edit] Summary

Early edition book cover for Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson.

Copyright 1971 Random House.

[edit] Rationales of fair use

The use of this image in the article, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is fair use because:

1. For articles about books, it is necessary and standard to display the cover image as a lead-in to the article and to illustrate the article as a whole.
2. It is not practical to convey a visual image about the book without using the book cover, therefore, this is a non-replaceable image.
3. The image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be inferior).
4. It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
5. The image does not inhibit sales of the book.
6. The image does not impede the licensing of the book.
7. The image does no damage to the image or quality of the book. In fact its use exactly fits the purpose of a book cover, which is promoting the film.
8. The image is used on other websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make any more accessible than it already is.

Furthermore, the use of this image on the article Hunter S. Thompson, is fair use because:

1. The image appears in a section of the article that offers critical commentary on the book.
2. The book represents a key work in the career of the subject.
3. It is not practical to convey a visual image about the book without using the book cover, therefore, this is a non-replaceable image.
4. The image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be inferior).
5. It is used in Wikipedia only for educational purposes and is not used for profit.
6. The image does not inhibit sales of the book.
7. The image does not impede the licensing of the film.
8. The image does no damage to the image or quality of the film. In fact its use exactly fits the purpose of a book cover, which is promoting the film.
9. The image is used on other websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make any more accessible than it already is.

[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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