Copyright issues: Using quotes
Jan 23 2007
All images and quotes from movies are copyright and you must obtain permission to use them. This excludes older movies that have fallen into the public domain. A movie falls into the public domain if the copyright has not been renewed once it has expired. How long it takes before expiry depends on what the law stated at the time it was made. There is a chart to check this is available, click here.
Short quotes (less than 10 percent of the work) can be used under ‘Fair Use’ by teachers and students for educational purposes or by critics, for news reporting or for comment, but this does not apply to commercial use. Fair Use information can be found by clicking here.
Copyright is very complicated. To find out who owns the copyright to various materials, and how to contact them, click here.