File:Clements checklist cover.gif

Summary

Low-resolution of the cover of the sixth edition of the Clements Checklist, from Cornell University website.

Usual fair use rationale for book covers applies - only for use in the article about the checklist itself

Licensing

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to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
Fair use

Fair use in The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World

This work is copyrighted (or assumed to be copyrighted) and unlicensed. It does not fall into one of the blanket acceptable non-free content categories listed at Wikipedia:Non-free content § Images or Wikipedia:Non-free content § Audio clips, and it is not covered by a more specific non-free content license listed at Category:Wikipedia non-free file copyright templates. However, it is believed that the use of this work:

To illustrate the subject in question
Where no free equivalent is available or could be created that would adequately give the same information
On the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content and Wikipedia:Copyrights.
Fair use

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Please add a detailed non-free use rationale for each article the image is used in, which must also declare compliance with the other parts of the non-free content criteria, as well as the source of the work and copyright information.
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Use of this copyrighted image in article w:en:The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World is believed to be fair use on the grounds that:

It is a low resolution image that cannot be used to reproduce the cover at commercial quality
Such images are freely available on the internet from multiple sources
Use of the image will not detract from the copyright holder's ability to sell the book; indeed it may reasonably be expected to enhance it
Use of the image adds significantly to the article as it directly illustrates the subject of the article.

Fair use in The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World

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