Grappling with Copyright

As outlined in the remit, the website can obviously not violate copyright, and in making a website for a Cinema, use of any media attributed to a film is obviously owned by the creator/production company. There are however caveats to this, which I shall make use of in creating my site.

Firstly, both UK and US copyright law allow for “fair use”, and both make mention of use for educational purposes, for which I believe this falls beneath. I have also centered a disclaimer onto the footer of each of my singular pages with mention of this as an educational piece of work.

Secondly, the use of certain types of media, those being movie trailers or reviews will either come embedded and therefore automatically attributed or hyperlinked and sourced, thereby removing any copyright conflict. It should also be noted that being a Cinema, this business would already have attained the rights to use promotional material such as posters and trailers, both offline and online.

Finally, where using imagery that does not pertain to any film in particular and for instance to the town of Aberystwyth or to the fictional building in which “The Picturehouse” resides, any and all images will be courtesy of Google’s own image filtering search, with images labelled for reuse and modification, or from Wikipedia’s catalogue as has been done with the homepage’s picture of Aberystwyth to be found here.