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."
http://www.cla.co.uk/media/general-digitisation.pdf
"Fair dealing in the digital environment is yet to be defined by the courts,
and it would be unwise to assume that any digital copying is fair dealing."
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