File:Chessmen Mars.jpg

Summary

Non-free media information and use rationale true for The Chessmen of Mars
Description	front cover of the 1963 Ballantine Books paperback edition of Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover illustration by Robert Abbett.
Source	http://pictures.abebooks.com/PANDORA/338119072.jpg
Article	The Chessmen of Mars
Portion used	front cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	to illustrate the article The Chessmen of Mars about the book, and the article Robert Abbett about the illustrator of the front cover.
Replaceable?	no copyright-free version available.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Chessmen of Mars//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chessmen_Mars.jpgtrue

Fair use rationale

Fair use in article Robert K. Abbett

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

It illustrates an educational article about the illustrator of the book cover, Robert K. Abbett.
It contributes to a critical commentary about the illustrator.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topics.
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.
It is a low resolution image.
The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Fair use in article Jetan

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

It illustrates an educational article about the game Jetan, a game that was invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs, described in his book The Chessmen of Mars, and illustrated on the front cover of the 1963 Ballantine Books paperback edition of this book.
It contributes to a critical commentary about the game Jetan, being the only official illustration of that game ever released by Burroughs.
The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topics.
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.
It is a low resolution image.
The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
It is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable 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