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Originally Posted by pwalker8
If you are are "Rules are rules" purist, then yes, downloading cover art is "piracy". It's covered under copyright and the artist didn't give you permission to make a copy.
If you go by the most restrictive definition of piracy (i.e. using copyrighted material without explicit permission), then pretty much everyone is a pirate. It's just that some people tend to apply the term unequally. It's piracy if you go back and grab a copy of an ebook that isn't available elsewhere to fill out your series, but it isn't piracy if they grab a piece of cover art, or exchange recipes with friends (if they got it from a book, newspaper or website, then it's covered under copyright law, though in a broader sense, recipes is a prime example of why allowing works to go into public domain is important) is.
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But it is my understanding that mere lists of ingredients and procedures are excluded from copyright! Basic recipes are just a list of ingredients and a procedure for mixing them together and thus can't be under copyright regardless of source. Only the extra frills (such as commentary) are under copyright.
Grabbing cover images on the other hand ....