File:Spearhead book.jpg

Summary

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Spearhead (novel)
Description	front cover of the 1958 Permaboook paperback version of Spearhead (1st edition, 1st printing. Cover art by Robert Abbett.
Source	http://pictures.abebooks.com/BSMNTBOOKS/191241094.jpg
Article	Spearhead (novel)
Portion used	front cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	to illustrate an article Spearhead about the book, and an article Robert Abbett (Science Fiction Illustrator) about Franklin M. Davis, Jr the author.
Replaceable?	no copyright-free version available.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Spearhead (novel)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spearhead_book.jpgtrue

Non-free media information and use rationale true for Permabooks
Description	front cover of the 1958 Permaboook paperback version of Spearhead (1st edition, 1st printing. Cover art by Robert Abbett.
Source	http://pictures.abebooks.com/BSMNTBOOKS/191241094.jpg
Article	Permabooks
Portion used	front cover
Low resolution?	yes
Purpose of use	to illustrate an article about the publisher of this book
Replaceable?	no copyright-free version available.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Permabooks//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Spearhead_book.jpgtrue

Fair use in Permabooks, Spearhead (book) and Robert Abbett (Illustrator) and Franklin M. Davis, Jr

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 book (1958 Permabound paperback version of Spearhead), an educational article about the cover illustrator (Robert Abbett) and an educational article about the author (Franklin M. Davis, Jr.
It contributes to a critical commentary about the book and author.
The image is used as an important 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.
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