RE: De-Spinning the Spin - The real truth
"GIFs [all images] with famous faces
This notion of fair use becomes even more complex when a GIF features a celebrity [movie star like Chris Hemsworth or Nathan Fillion].
Individual celebrities also have the option to invoke so-called “right of publicity” laws that allow public figures to control how their image is used, according to Fortune‘s Jeff John Roberts.
Despite the absence of any clear legal decision on this matter, social media networks have already adopted measures to protect themselves. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) ensures that social media sites who host GIFs are not held responsible as long as they have a system to report and remove content accused of copyright infringement.
For you, this means that the DCMA will hold you liable for sharing copyrighted GIFs, rather than the platform on which you shared it.
Even if you include attribution or a link back to the creator’s website, you can still be held liable for copyright infringement."
https://modicum.agency/blog/animated-gifs-fair-use-copyright-law/
Feel free to contact them and ask them. But as I said before, you should understand Fair use. Bother them not me. You disagree flag it.
Ok, so all celebrity images and movie footage are considered "fair-use".
Duly noted.
A gif in the middle of a post, sure. Plastering copyrighted movie images all over your post without sourcing, no. If you look at my movie/tv posts you can see I source them all. Not a single image is ever unsourced unless it is CC0. I am more lax with Gifs as they fall more under fair use similar to memes. They are considered social culture.
Gifs are more under fair use than images because one of the key components of fair use is the fraction of the derivative work. An image is 100% of the derivative work and thus completely stolen if not sourced, but a gif is generally like 0.001% of the original work and fall well below the ~30% guideline.
Wow... i find your resilience in responding to this user impressive. It wasn’t even to me... but i just wanted to write fuck off, bother someone else. 🤣...
i guess on a level he is trying to understand, its just too anal...even for a Butt.