File:I Robot - Runaround.jpg

Summary
This cover of I, Robot illustrates the story "Runaround", the first to list all Three Laws of Robotics.

Fair use for Three Laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are one of his most enduring contributions to science fiction and have even had an effect upon the way present-day technologists think about robot design. This image, the cover to a now out-of-print edition of I, Robot, illustrates the first scene in Asimov's corpus which uses all three Laws, though earlier stories presumed robots had various built-in safeguards. As such, this cover depicts an important moment in the history of science fiction, and it is therefore of considerable scholarly utility.

No free or public-domain images illustrating the story "Runaround", the book I, Robot or the Three Laws have been located. Since this image would be available to a viewer free of cost (for example, on a bookstore shelf), and since the edition it accompanies is no longer in print, the presence of this image in the Three Laws article does not impair the copyright holder's ability to profit from the work.


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 * 2) No free or public domain images have been located for the subject of the article.
 * 3) Given the date of creation for the story, no free licence illustration will be available for several more years.
 * 4) The use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia is not believed to infringe the copyright owner's right or ability to distribute the art in any way.
 * 5) The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the value of the original art or its copyright in any way.
 * 6) It is believed that the article benefits from a reference image depicting a scene from the story itself.

Fair use for I, Robot

 * 1) The image is of lower resolution than the original book cover (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
 * 2) No free or public domain images have been located for the subject of the article.
 * 3) Given the date of creation for the book, no free licence illustration will be available for several more years.
 * 4) The use of this image on the English-language Wikipedia is not believed to infringe the copyright owner's right or ability to distribute the art in any way.
 * 5) The image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the value of the original art or its copyright in any way.
 * 6) The image is of a cover of a book, and so additional rationales at Bookcover may apply.