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Book covers on websites like Fanfiction.net
If it's just a picture from a film, like say if someone has taken a screenshot of a scene in the film, can you get sued for using this on your book cover? It's not like I'm going to be making money...
It's probably unlikely that people would find out about it...but if they do, can I get sued?
What happens if...
a) if someone else has taken the screenshot and has NOT edited it and I just use that?
b) if I take the screenshot myself?
The only reason why I don't want to take it myself is because it comes out very blurry.
Also, this film that I'm screenshotting is NOT the film I'm writing a fanfic about. One of the actors in the film that I'm fanficing about is my main character but I need a picture of him when he was much younger, and the picture I want from the film is when he was much younger, and he's wearing the right clothes and everything...
So yeah. Please answer and I'm sorry for my lack of intelligence :)
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It's unlikely you'll be 'sued' but you (well, not you personally, but fanfiction.net) can be told by the copyright holder to take the image down because you do not have permission to use it.
And fanfiction.net could ban you for life. That's in their terms of service.
You can't use a screenshot of a movie to promote your own, completely unrelated work, even if you aren't charging for it. It doesn't matter if you take the screenshot or someone else.
You are right that lots of people do it, most never get caught, and most movie studios don't give a damn, but it's definitely something that the copyright holder has the power to tell tell you to stop doing.
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