On 24/02/2008, WJhonson(a)aol.com <WJhonson(a)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.
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geni