In a message dated 3/3/2008 9:28:25 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, WJhonson@aol.com writes:

With all the hand-wringing over book covers and album covers and distributed pictures of living people, you'd think we'd hear about all these supposed lawsuits and costs and C&D's. And what we actually hear is complete silence.>>

--------------- Just to add a bit to my own post. As an author, if someone cited my work, even including the book cover art I would be *thrilled*. I wouldn't be suing, I'd be thanking them. There's no lost income from that sort of copy, it in fact, creates new income, be interesting people in the work so they will want to get it.

An album cover does not replace the album, and the artist whose album art is copied laughs all the way to the bank as more people are re-introduced to some old 70s work or something.

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