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?