Editorial Use & Fair Dealing

Purpose

Paperboy is a daily editorial review of how the world’s newspapers cover the news. On our front-pages page and on individual newspaper pages, we display low-resolution thumbnails of newspaper front pages alongside written editorial analysis. The purpose is critical review and commentary — examining how different papers frame the same stories, what they emphasise, what they choose to leave off the page, and how their editorial stance shapes the reader’s impression of the day’s news.

The image is incidental to the commentary. We do not reproduce articles, we do not host full-resolution scans for consumption, and the thumbnails cannot substitute for buying or visiting the original publication. Every paper we feature has a prominent “Read the paper” link directing readers to its own website.

Fair use & fair dealing

Our use of front-page imagery falls within the doctrines of fair use in the United States (17 U.S.C. § 107) and fair dealing in the United Kingdom (Sections 30 and 30A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, covering criticism, review, quotation, and news reporting). The use is transformative: we add substantial editorial commentary and critical analysis around each image, treating the front page as the subject of review rather than as content for republication.

Where thumbnails are used as navigation — for example, in date-archive strips and grid indexes — the images function as visual identifiers, allowing readers to recognise a specific edition of a paper and click through to the editorial analysis. Courts in both jurisdictions have repeatedly held that low-resolution, navigational thumbnails of this kind are protected use (see, in particular, Kelly v. Arriba Soft and Perfect 10 v. Amazon/Google in the US).

Attribution

Each front-page image is captioned with the masthead and edition date. We link from every paper’s detail page to that paper’s own website, social channels, and Wikipedia entry where available. Trademarks, mastheads and editorial content remain the property of their respective publishers. Paperboy is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the newspapers it lists or analyses.

Takedown requests

If you believe content on Paperboy has been used in a way that exceeds fair use or fair dealing, please contact us with specifics. We respond promptly to legitimate concerns from rights holders.