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Yeah, the law is pretty unclear. I don't think LT or Wikipedia are taking an unreasonable risk. Odds are, the publishers aren't going to complain. If they do, and you are willing to go to court, it's a toss up as to whether you'd win or not. Jonathan Thomas Dowling wrote: > On 08/07/2008 04:04 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> I am actually pretty certain that Amazon _has_ licensed their covers, >> and particularly from Syndetics. >> > > Contrariwise, Wikipedia includes book and DVD covers and movie > posters, with a pretty verbose explanation of why they think they're > allowed to do so (see for example > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:StarWarsMoviePoster1977.jpg>). > > I guess they just define their use as allowed and wait for someone to > challenge them on it? > > -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu