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Hello - is it permissible to take book cover images from online bibliographies? For example this site has a complete and highly detailed bibliography with cover images of the Sexton Blake books. Would it be ok to take cover images from there, since it isn't a bookseller site and it is an official bibliography?

Thank you!

In what way is it official?
This wouldn't seem to fit with list of acceptable sources.
Possibly also not acceptable due to copyright issues, note text at bottom of page 'Content © Copyright Mark Hodder 2018'

Well, I guess I was calling it "official" because he's actually published it. When someone publishes a bibliography of an author or musician or whatever, it does become a valid source for scholars and other researchers. But yeah, I see what you mean.

As to copyright, that's an interesting question - I don't think just taking a picture of a book cover means you own the cover image, does it? Copyright remains with the original copyright holder or, if it's lapsed, means that it's public domain, doesn't it? But I guess that would mean that for a lot of these, copyright is still owned by the original publiisher...

So yeah, I guess the answer has to be "No." Too bad, because honestly, the work of a rabid fan is more likely to be accurate than Amazon lol

Thanks for the chance to talk it through :)

Taking a picture means someone has certain rights for that specific picture (even if it looks the same as any other picture of it), which is not the same as the rights related to the original object.

There are two sides in these situations, what does the other party allow and Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ' policies.
Like a source can allow reuse as long as the image is credited to the photographer, but that is not possible here, so we can't use such a source.