File:KaraTur Box Set Cover.jpg

Description
This is the front cover art for the book Kar-Tur. The book cover art copyright is believed to belong to the publisher or the cover artist.

Source
It is believed that the cover art can or could be obtained from the publisher.

Article
Kara-Tur: The Eastern Realms

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
Header. 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 at the beginning of the article or section discussing the work, 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 as a header 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.

The rationale of the fair-use of this image is as follows:
This is a scan of the cover of the Kara-Tur Box Set, cropped and reduced in size. It believed to be fair use as it is reduced in sized and cropped and used to illustrate the product in Kara-Tur. There is no free replacement possible to serve the same purpose.

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 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.