File:The Americans (2nd printing).jpg

Cover scan of The Americans by Robert Frank, 1969 2nd printing.

Fair use in The Americans[edit]

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

1. It illustrates an educational article about The Americans, the book from which the cover illustration was taken.
2. The image is used as the primary means of visual identification of the article topic.
3. The image illustrates an early edition of the book, in the context of an academic and historical explanation of that book.
4. 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.
5. It is a low resolution image.
6. The image is only a small portion of the commercial product.
7. The book and its contents are copyrighted, so this image is not replaceable with an uncopyrighted or freely copyrighted image of comparable educational value.

Licensing[edit]

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 the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information. Fair use //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Americans_(2nd_printing).jpg true