How can the videos be used without violating copyright? Is that question?
As I understand it, the IMDb company won't have a problem with anybody copying videos originating from IMDb Studio and editing parts of the copied material into a video of his or her own, as long the IMDb watermark or other branding isn't omitted or obscured. Unfortunately, I cannot cite a specific licensing provision concerning this. Under the law, there is a thing known as fair use, but also under the law, absent the confines the limited justifications of fair use, one entity is supposed to acquire permission to distribute freely copied material belonging to another entity, which is the point of this thread. Great! So, the might remain the question of how permissible is it to distribute an entire video copyrighted by IMDb. Using the HTML "iframe" tag feature of the Web infrastructure, it is okay to display IMDb videos on other websites, whenever the content security policy (CSP) of Amazon/IMDb Web servers don't cause the embedding to fail on most Web browsers. Not so clear is how okay it would be to display (i.e. distribute) a complete copy of such a thing. That might not be permissible.
Anyway, as for being able to use stuff not copyrighted by IMDb, the important thing to understand is that IMDb or rather nobody can give permission to use work copyrighted by somebody else. So, for example, there are many trailers for many movies copyrighted by Walt Disney studios, and they show up on IMDb, but IMDb cannot give anybody else permission to "use" these somewhere else. The permission would have to come from the actual copyright holder. Thankfully, in the case of trailers, they just about all have some kind of implicit license allowing them to be displayed anywhere, provided that they've not been subjected to manipulation of the video or audio, since that kind of thing is reserved to the copyright holder. The question of how to copy something might arise, and the way IMDb (or a lot of websites for that matter) is designed, the absence of a expressly-designated download button/feature means that the material isn't really intended to be copied from the particular website. Such an aspect of copyright is directly related to the concept of mechanical copyright too, but I would rather not make the question anymore complicated than I already have thus far.
IMDb does not grant permission to use videos from our website or mobile app. To obtain rights to photos or videos, you will need to reach out to the original copyright holder(s) of the videos for permission.
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How can the videos be used without violating copyright? Is that question?
As I understand it, the IMDb company won't have a problem with anybody copying videos originating from IMDb Studio and editing parts of the copied material into a video of his or her own, as long the IMDb watermark or other branding isn't omitted or obscured. Unfortunately, I cannot cite a specific licensing provision concerning this. Under the law, there is a thing known as fair use, but also under the law, absent the confines the limited justifications of fair use, one entity is supposed to acquire permission to distribute freely copied material belonging to another entity, which is the point of this thread. Great! So, the might remain the question of how permissible is it to distribute an entire video copyrighted by IMDb. Using the HTML "iframe" tag feature of the Web infrastructure, it is okay to display IMDb videos on other websites, whenever the content security policy (CSP) of Amazon/IMDb Web servers don't cause the embedding to fail on most Web browsers. Not so clear is how okay it would be to display (i.e. distribute) a complete copy of such a thing. That might not be permissible.
Anyway, as for being able to use stuff not copyrighted by IMDb, the important thing to understand is that IMDb or rather nobody can give permission to use work copyrighted by somebody else. So, for example, there are many trailers for many movies copyrighted by Walt Disney studios, and they show up on IMDb, but IMDb cannot give anybody else permission to "use" these somewhere else. The permission would have to come from the actual copyright holder. Thankfully, in the case of trailers, they just about all have some kind of implicit license allowing them to be displayed anywhere, provided that they've not been subjected to manipulation of the video or audio, since that kind of thing is reserved to the copyright holder. The question of how to copy something might arise, and the way IMDb (or a lot of websites for that matter) is designed, the absence of a expressly-designated download button/feature means that the material isn't really intended to be copied from the particular website. Such an aspect of copyright is directly related to the concept of mechanical copyright too, but I would rather not make the question anymore complicated than I already have thus far.
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Hi @Adeic1 -
IMDb does not grant permission to use videos from our website or mobile app. To obtain rights to photos or videos, you will need to reach out to the original copyright holder(s) of the videos for permission.
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