On 24/02/2008, WJhonson@aol.com WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
If there is a book about Gandhi, and our Gandhi article has no image of Gandhi, wouldn't you say it's appropriate to have an image instead of no image?
Whether the cover image is significant or relevant, is not material to the separate issue of whether using it would be "Fair Use".
Will Johnson
Since we would be discussing neither the book or the image no. Trying to defend grabbing a random image of Gandhi and putting it in the article would be kinda dicey. Using the cover of a bio would be worse still since the use wouldn't be transformative and to an extent we would be directly competing with the book. I can quite easily see the courts saying if you want to use the image for that you are going to have to pay.