File:WardGreyhawkAdventuresCover.jpg

Summary
Non-free media use rationale - non-free book cover for Greyhawk Adventures

Description
This is the front cover art for the book Greyhawk Adventures written by James M. Ward. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher, TSR, Inc. or the cover artist, Jeff Easley.

Source
May be found at the following website: http://www.tsrinfo.net/archive/gh/gh-hb.jpg

Article
Greyhawk Adventures

Portion used
The entire front cover. Because the image is a book cover, a form of product packaging, the entire image is needed to identify the product, properly convey the meaning and branding intended, and avoid tarnishing or misrepresenting the image.

Low resolution?
The copy is of sufficient resolution for commentary and identification but lower resolution than the original book cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, unsuitable as artwork on pirate versions or other uses that would compete with the commercial purpose of the original artwork.

Purpose of use
The image is used for identification in the context of critical commentary of the work for which it serves as cover art. It makes a significant contribution to the user's understanding of the article, which could not practically be conveyed by words alone.The image is placed in the infobox at the top of the article discussing the work, to show the primary visual image associated with the work, and to help the user quickly identify the work and know they have found what they are looking for. Use for this purpose does not compete with the purposes of the original work, namely the book cover creator's ability to provide book cover design services and in turn marketing books to the public.

Replaceable?
As a book cover, the image is not replaceable by free content; any other image that shows the packaging of the book would also be copyrighted, and any version that is not true to the original would be inadequate for identification or commentary. Using a different image in the infobox would be misleading as to the identity of the work.

Other information
Use of the book cover in the article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.

Description
Book cover, Greyhawk Adventures by James M. Ward (TSR, Inc., 1988)

Source
TSR Archive Web site, URL = http://home.flash.net/~brenfrow/gh/gh-hb.jpg

Date
10 July 2007 (download date)

Author
Original cover artwork by Jeff Easley

Permission
(Reusing this file) Fair use of copyrighted material (book cover)

Licensing
Copyrighted 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 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.

Fair use for Greyhawk Adventures
The use of this image in the article named / linked above is claimed as Fair use of copyrighted material because: it is a low resolution copy of a book cover; the article named above concerns the publication in question; the inclusion of the image in the named article makes a significant contribution to the article because it identifies the publication in question; no free version of the image is available that would serve the equivalent purpose; the inclusion of the image in the named article does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the original publication in any way; the image cannot be used to replace the original market role of the publication in question.