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Summary edit

Cover of Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation (best picture I could find online, was taken from here). Will be used in article per fair use laws.

Fair use in Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation edit

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

• It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
• The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
• 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 (drawings on cover cannot even be made out well).
• 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 edit

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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Encyclopediarussiananimation2007.JPG true