File:Kiss the Tiger.jpg

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Fair use in Franklin M. Davis, Jr and Kiss the Tiger edit

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 author Franklin M. Davis, Jr, and an educational article about the book, the 1961 Pyramid Books paperback edition of Kiss the Tiger.
• It contributes to a critical commentary about the author and book.
• 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.

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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:Kiss_the_Tiger.jpg true