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Summary

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Non-free media information and use rationale true for The Chessmen of Mars
Description

front cover of the 1963 Ballantine Books paperback edition of Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Cover illustration by Robert Abbett.

Source

http://pictures.abebooks.com/PANDORA/338119072.jpg

Article

The Chessmen of Mars

Portion used

front cover

Low resolution?

yes

Purpose of use

to illustrate the article The Chessmen of Mars about the book, and the article Robert Abbett about the illustrator of the front cover.

Replaceable?

no copyright-free version available.

Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of The Chessmen of Mars//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chessmen_Mars.jpgtrue

Fair use rationale

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Fair use in article Robert K. Abbett

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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 illustrator of the book cover, Robert K. Abbett.
  • It contributes to a critical commentary about the illustrator.
  • The image is used as the primary 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.

Fair use in article Jetan

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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 game Jetan, a game that was invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs, described in his book The Chessmen of Mars, and illustrated on the front cover of the 1963 Ballantine Books paperback edition of this book.
  • It contributes to a critical commentary about the game Jetan, being the only official illustration of that game ever released by Burroughs.
  • The image is used as the primary 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.

Licensing

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File history

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Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:05, 19 November 2017Thumbnail for version as of 06:05, 19 November 2017244 × 407 (25 KB)Theo's Little Bot (talk | contribs)Reduce size of non-free image (BOT - disable)
13:48, 11 August 2011No thumbnail301 × 503 (38 KB)BPK2 (talk | contribs)

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