[Foundation-l] Fair use being badly abused on en.wikipedia

[Nikola Smolenski]

On Friday 11 January 2008 04:35, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
> On Jan 10, 2008 7:37 PM, Andrew Gray <shimgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> > There is an awful lot of material we use and justify by saying "well,
> > we couldn't use anything else" - we should be very wary of believing
> > this to be a justification that we *need* it.
>
> I agree with this sentiment entirely. Just because an image is
> irreplacable does not mean it has intrinsic value. For instance, the
> cover image of a book or CD or DVD is hardly "important". That is,
> unless there is something special and unique about that particular
> cover that makes it worthy of pointing out especially.

I find cover image of a book a part of essential information about this book 
that I want to see if I want to know about the book. At least for me, as a 
reader, it is important. The same for CD/DVD covers, movie posters and 
whatnot.