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Originally posted by Mutt
Lady Mischief is right, some big shot lawyer who lurks here contacted me about a year ago and explained all this copyright stuff to me regarding movies.
Just the screencaps alone on a typical AB movie archive site are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in copyright infringement damage awards.
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I've made it my business to know copyright law inside and out, and I've studied a lot of precident cases. I was surprised to learn myself that movies can be prosecuted this way.. but to break it down further for those who don't see what I'm getting at..
Movies go frame by frame, and they can technically take each frame and count that as a seperate image... so say a 15 second video clip has 15 frames per second, 225 frames, they could technically prosecute for 225 different images and pursue damages on each. multiply that by the maximum penalty, which is $100,000 US per image, it's not child's play anymore
