Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
Nicolas Weeger wrote:
What about for instance book covers? They are
definitely not
something you can usually have under a free licence. But fair use
probably applies (since the cover isn't the book itself).
What would the "fair use" status of a book cover be in Great Britian?
For book and CD covers, its extremely unlikely to be considered Fair
Dealing
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/papers/pa/fair/intro.html
"Posting on a network:
Posting of part or all of an electronic publication on a network or WWW
site open to the public is not fair dealing and the permission of the
rightsholder should be sought in all cases."
This strikes me as strange. Under what protection do we (or anyone else) post
short excerpts of copyrighted works? See eg.