I'm sure O'Reilly holds the copyright on the cover and the book. It's unusual for it to be other than the publisher.

I decided not to ask O'Reilly as it would put them in a bad position. You can loose a U.S. copyright if you don't "adequately" protect it, so their future ownership can be weakened every time they say "sure no problem". If the usage is fairly obviously "fair use", and they say nothing, it costs them nothing. At least that's the way I read it.

In any case, it's the PM person who's stuck enforcing the rules that I care about. I'm quite confident O'Reilly won't care, and I can accomodate them easily if I'm wrong on that.

In reply to Re^3: What qualifies as copyrighted material? by rodion
in thread What qualifies as copyrighted material? by rodion

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