On 7 Oct 2004, at 22:55, <dpbsmith(a)verizon.net> wrote:
For what it's worth, a former film professor at BU
told me a story
once about
how he had found it difficult to impossible to get permission to use
actual
film frames to illustrate a more-or-less scholarly book. He said that
the
movie studios want everyone to use "production stills" instead, which
are
high-quality conventional still photographs taken more or less
concurrently
with the actual production. I'm not sure exactly why they want this,
but
apparently most photographs "from films" that appear in traditional
print
media are production stills rather than actual frames.
But it's obvious, isn't it:
Simple framegrabs they can't exercise any control over because the
aforedescribed fair use rationale would likely be found to apply if
challenged in the courts (which they probably don't want people to
know).
So instead, they want everybody to use production stills because the
said fair use rationale would NOT apply with them and the studio would
thus have full copyright control over those and be able to dictate
everybody wanting to use such pictures to heed their every wish and
whim.
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