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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
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.
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Ok...so what if the cover is used to advertise the book, and is also displayed inside the book, but the author/publisher was to lazy or clueless to actually set it as the cover so that it doesn't display the cover in my library? Is it still illegal to download the cover and add it to the book so that it will display properly?
Shari