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Ask HN: Legality of Sharing Movie Screencaps?

5 pointsby moonfleetover 3 years ago
I’m learning a web framework by making a tumblr-like website solely based around movie screencaps. I’m planning to open it to public but I don’t want to get sued. Any advice?

2 comments

PaulHouleover 3 years ago
I print &quot;three-sided cards&quot;, usually on 4″×6″ paper. Some of these are photos I take, some are art public domain art, some come from anime imageboards.<p>One thing I found was that a clean frame of 720p or better video makes a great print so I have a series of cards that come from movies and TV. I don&#x27;t sell the cards so I think these fall under &quot;fair use&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinytake.com&#x2F;screen-capture-copyright-violation-or-fair-use&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tinytake.com&#x2F;screen-capture-copyright-violation-or-f...</a><p>However, this academic asked the studios for permission to reproduce a frame from a movie from a book and they were told &quot;no&quot;<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eve.gd&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;12&#x2F;another-copyright-absurdity-using-film-screenshots&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;eve.gd&#x2F;2015&#x2F;05&#x2F;12&#x2F;another-copyright-absurdity-using-...</a>
tedmistonover 3 years ago
Don&#x27;t get indexed in search engines.