I noticed Spike Lee got permission to quote James Baldwin in _Bamboozled_. Did he need to do this legally, since it went attributed? Scott ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lou A Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 3:44 PM Subject: Re: Film Stills > Yes, but there is a limit to how much we can quote of text before we are > required to seek permission. And in some cases, such as song lyrics, any > quotation must be cleared first. And images are handled differently from > text. You must get permission for a photograph or an image of, say, > Mickey Mouse. The question is, I think, does a frame of a film > constitute a single unit (such as a photograph), or is it merely a > fragment of the larger unit (such as the scene or the film itself). > > Lou Ann Thompson > Denton, Texas > ____________________________________________________ > > "One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression"--William Blake > > ---- > Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite > http://www.tcf.ua.edu/ScreenSite ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html