Re: Copyright for Book Cover

On Fri, 05 Feb 1999, Mark McCallon <mark.mccallon[_at_]alc.org> wrote:
>
> Our university is beginning to offer web-based courses for our distance
> education program. As a part of each course, we would like to have
> .gifs of the covers of textbooks displayed on the course web site. I
> have seen many of the online bookstores display covers of books, but I
> am unsure if it would be an infringement for a university. Have any
> other universities done this for their distance ed. courses?
>
> Any advice would be helpful.

Why not go one further and make the gifs into links to the publisher's site and/or amazon.com - and then ask permission. Somehow I don't think that the publishers will refuse in such circumstances.

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Edward Barrow
edward[_at_]plato32.demon.co.uk