File:ScratchCrow.jpg

Summary edit

Frame capture from a video copy of the 16mm film Scratch and Crow, a motion picture made by Helen Hill. The on-screen copyright notice reads "© ch. hill 1995." The copyright notice is an inside joke: the film's characters are chickens, and Helen Hill's nickname was Chicken.

As a frame capture from a motion picture (with more than 6,000 frames), this image is shared under Fair Use provision.

Fair use rationale for Scratch and Crow edit

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

1. The screenshot is of lower resolution and quality than the original video (copies made from it will be of inferior quality).
2. No free or public domain images have been located for this content.
3. The screenshot does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the show or DVDs in any way.
4. The screenshot is intended to represent the nature of the film.
5. The screenshot is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original film in any way.
6. Derived from a digital capture of one frame in the film discussed in this article (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Claimed as fair use regardless.

Licensing edit

This image is a screenshot from a copyrighted film, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by the studio which produced the film, and possibly also by any actors appearing in the screenshot. It is believed that the use of a limited number of low-resolution screenshots for critical commentary and discussion of the film and its contents on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Any other uses of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, may be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

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