User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-5442547-20130319195443/@comment-4028641-20130330192135

I've looked into this a bit, and I'd say that there would be no real copy-right issues with us posting images from the story. For one, the story is very clearly copyright BBC. I don't think any argument saying that they did not own the copyright to the special would not go very far; there's no indication of anyone else owning it and the BBC have claimed ownership of it.

Secondly, us using images from the special still falls within US fair use policies, as the special was technically released. As long as we're not, say, post images of deleted scenes never released to the public, we should be fine. Furthermore, even though DiT has only been aired once, clips from the show have been re-aired before, including on news reels and behind-the-scenes features, one of which we got our main image from the story from. Not only that, but others have used snapshots from DiT with no copyright strife before. One issue of DWM magazine used dozens of snapshots from the episode with no copyright strife. Thus us uploading images from the special would cause no problems what-so-ever.

Furthermore, the idea that no good images can exist from the episode is rather a load of speculation. There are many good recording of the story, particularly from the second episode, and most recordings will have better quality than this image.

To conclude, there should be no copyright issue with us uploading images from Dimensions in Time.