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.
Ec