Image:Worldisflat.gif

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Image
• File history
• File links

No higher resolution available.
Worldisflat.gif‎ (184 × 255 pixels, file size: 20 KB, MIME type: image/gif)

[edit] Summary

Cover of The World Is Flat by Thomas Friedman.

"I Told You So," by E.D. Miracle; 1976.

[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.

[edit] Fair use rationale for use in the article The World Is Flat

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The image is only being used in the article about the book for informational and educational purposes.
2. The image is of the first edition of the book.
3. The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
4. The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
5. The image is a low resolution image, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
8. The use of this image will not 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] Fair use rationale for use in the article The World Is Flat (Criticism)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The image is only being used in the article about the book for informational and educational purposes.
2. The image is of the first edition of the book.
3. The image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.
4. The image is the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
5. The image is a low resolution image, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The use of this image will not affect the value of the original work.
8. The use of this image will not 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.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

• Search for duplicate files
• Edit this file using an external application

  See the setup instructions for more information.

File links