This of course coming from people who have never made a film / TV
program. I get really angry when people use images from my films and
dont tell me about it. I release trailers, and if they want any screen
grabs they can get them from those.
On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:31:33 -0700, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
Robert Graham Merkel wrote:
The dissenting High Court judges thought that the
majority was
deliberately misinterpreting the law to achieve a victory for common sense.
I can sympathize with his outrage. ;-)
More generally, it seems to me that there is a
tendancy round here to
assume laws are written the same way as programming language definitions.
From my layperson's perspective, that seems to
be quite wrong - there's a
lot of fudging and playing around with ambiguities to
get the "right"
outcome, and screw the pedantry.
We've often heard it said that ignorance of the law is no excuse. It
works both ways. It neither excuses a wrongful act, nor a failure to
take a rightful benefit.
So my gut feeling is that the common sense aspect
of using film stills to
illustrate an encyclopedia article makes it very, very unlikely we'll
ever get challenged on it, and that if we ever were we'd be highly
likely to win any court case.
Absolutely.
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