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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: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.

A book cover for Neuromancer by William Gibson.

[edit] Fair use for Neuromancer

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

It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
The image is only being used for informational purposes and will not interfere with commercial use by the copyright owner.
It is an image of the book's cover, in Neuromancer, an article about the book.
The image is not replaceable by any freely licensed image.

GhePeU 13:01, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

Non-free / fair use media rationale for Science fiction
Description	It is an image of the book's cover, in Neuromancer, an article about the book.
Source	Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the book cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the publisher or the artist. Claimed as fair use regardless.
Article	Science fiction
Portion used	Book cover only, a small portion of the commercial product.
Low resolution?	Yes, It is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
Purpose of use	The image serves as the primary means of visual identification of the subject (the book). It illustrates educational articles about the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
Replaceable?	There is no free equivalent of this book cover, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.
Other information	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.

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current	00:27, 1 April 2006	392×651 (55 KB)	Wojnicki (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	00:25, 1 April 2006	360×550 (191 KB)	Wojnicki (Talk \| contribs)	(Reverted to earlier revision)
	06:43, 3 January 2006	392×651 (55 KB)	Alus (Talk \| contribs)	(First edition 1984 paperback picture added.)
	16:45, 24 August 2005	360×550 (191 KB)	Alus (Talk \| contribs)	({{bookcover}} A book cover for Neuromancer by William Gibson.)