--- Matthew Larsen <mat.larsen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I wouldnt like it if someone took a frame grab from
one of my movies,
but then you do see a lot of them on movie review sites.
Whether you like it or not is irrelevant. ;)
What matters is the amount of the work that is used and the use of that subset.
Since a feature-length movie has over 150,000 frames in it, a single low
resolution frame grab is an utterly tiny part of the whole work. Add in the
educational use and we have an *extremely* firm fair use/dealing/practice
defense; far stronger than any claim of fair use over what was from the start a
still photo.
Of course, IANAL.
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
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