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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
Then why do they seem to have the right to use the cover to advertise the sale of the book?
Even if you don't have the rights to the original cover you could commission new ones, it isn't like King doesn't get constant re-prints anyway.
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There is a difference between using a cover on a webpage to advertise and being able to grant someone the right to download such a cover. If you buy a license to an ebook, then you do have the right to download the ebook and do anything the license grants you to do. If the cover is not included in the licence you bought, then you don't have the right to download the cover. You only have the right to download copyrighted material if you have permission to do so. That permission is granted either through a license (e.g. ebook) or exlicitely if the web site owner declares it so on the webpage.
That there is no practical way to enforce it still does not make it legal to download. In the US every image posted on a webpage is automatically copyrighted and may not be downloaded legally unless permission is given. One exception is government pages (.gov) that are automatically in the public domain and images can be downloaded and used.