[WikiEN-l] Are TV screencaps reputable sources?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

mboverload wrote:
> Someone explain to me how a screencap is ANY different than a quote from a
> book.
> 

Quotes are factual (somebody said them), and facts cannot be copyrighted.

A screenshot is one of several thousand (~= 24 * 60 * 45) copyrighted
images, a story, the characters in the story, and an audio track which
make up an episode of a TV show.

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