Summary
Book cover for Bantam books reissue of A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin.
Rationale of fair use for A Game of Thrones
- No free or public domain images have been located for this novel.
- The image is of lower resolution than the original cover.
- The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the novel in any way.
- For an article about an novel, the cover artwork is often a crucial source of critical commentary about the novel, and as such the artwork adds significantly to the article.
- This image is used on various websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible than it already is.
- The cover is being used for informational purposes only.
Licensing
This image is of a book cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover or the publisher of the book. 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:Image description page, 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 List of fantasy novels
This image, AGameOfThrones.jpg, is being linked here; though the picture is subject to copyright I (MamaGeek (Talk/Contrib)) feel it is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
- it is a low resolution copy of a book cover;
- it does not limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the book in any way; this version of the book is out of print
- copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the cover artwork on another book;
For full information on this image, see its image description page on Wikipedia.
