File:Hitchhiker's Guide (book cover).jpg

Summary[edit]

Front cover of a 1990s American paperback edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, published in the United States by Ballantine Books. This cover was one of a series of four that incorporated the 42 Puzzle, designed by the book's author, Douglas Adams.

Fair use rationale for Phrases from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[edit]

1. This image is only being used in the article about the puzzle on its cover
2. This particular book cover image, designed in part by its author, was only in use for a few years, and only in the USA, and has already become rare.
3. It is a low resolution image, in an inferior graphics format (JPEG).
4. It is not believed that this image will interfere with the rights of Douglas Adams's estate, or his current publishers, in the sales of his books.
5. It is also not believed that the use of this image will infringe upon the rights of Ballantine Books.

Licensing[edit]

This image is of book cover(s), and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover(s) or the publisher of the book(s). It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers 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 //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_(book_cover).jpg true