[WikiEN-l] Are TV screencaps reputable sources?

[Bryan Derksen]

Alphax (Wikipedia email) wrote:
> 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.

Quotes can indeed be copyrighted. If we quote a paragraph from a book we
need to consider issues like fair use, we can't just take the text and
integrate it into an article willy-nilly as if it were under the GFDL.

> 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.

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?

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