File:Moscow Petushki.jpg

Book cover for Moscow-Petushki by Venedict Yerofeyev

Copyright 1990 Интербук.

The use of this image in the article, Moscow-Petushki is fair use because:

1. For articles about books, it is necessary and standard to display the cover image as a lead-in to the article and to illustrate the article as a whole.
2. It is not practical to convey a visual image about the book without using the book cover, therefore, this is a non-replaceable image.
3. The image is of much lower resolution than the original (copies made from it will be inferior).
4. The image does not inhibit sales of the book.
5. The image does not impede the licensing of the book.
6. The image does no damage to the image or quality of the book. In fact its use exactly fits the purpose of a book cover, which is promoting the book.
7. The image is used on other websites, so its use on Wikipedia does not make any more accessible than it already is.

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