Bryan Derksen wrote:
Books can have thousands of paragraphs too, all of them copyrighted and
forming a story (assuming it's one of those newfangled story-books). I fail to see the distinction, or even why the number of frames a screencap is taken from is relevant. Would a screencap from a 30-second commercial with no story be different?
Filmed commercials (the most shameful of Canadian inventions) would face other hurdles besides copyright: -Is it notable? -Is it encyclopedic? -Is it spam? -Is it NPOV?
Over the years some commercials have become creative classics in their own right.
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