On 8/3/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
I showed that in most cases the album cover art is not mentioned in the text. It is quite posible to buy an album without knowing what it looks like.
That's true, and I agree that most of them are really NOT strictly necessary from an informational point of view. However I think things like album covers are one of our safest categories from a legal point of view, both for us and for re-users, since they are not competing with any market and are most likely to be considered transformative.
All of the "media covers" we have are pretty safe in my mind; I wish people would spend more time on the more ambiguous categories of fair use, the ones with real potential for difficulties (i.e. the thousands of unattributed celebrity photographs and things labeled as "publicity photos", half of which are scans from magazines and the like).
FF