----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Mayer" <maveric149(a)yahoo.com>
--- 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.
Hum... If I understand you well, you are slicing a movie in frames and you
suggest that one frame would represent 1/150,000 of a movie's copyright.
Movies aren't homogenic chocolate bars you can slice and get pieces of the
same substantial chocolate in result. If I had made a suspense movie, the
last "slice" showing who is the murderer would weight a lot more than other
ones and I would hate a web-site to display it. What is copyrighted is the
work of the director (and co.), so a single frame could theorically be the
result of months of creative work, with never-seen dispositions of colors,
shapes, etc., and be as creative as, say,
http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/PT/cranach-apollo-diana.gif
That's theory. In practice, most of today's movies are all made on the same
few prototypes, and creation skills are used the same way as the salt is
added by mcbots on bigmacs to give a little bit of a taste to oily cotton,
therefore taking the full movie in full resolution is hardly stealing the
work of someone' brain, but a simple copy of a copy of something already
done, already seen, alr...
(gbog)