{"id":1272,"date":"2017-05-21T13:01:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T13:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2025-04-06T11:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T11:57:04","slug":"the-right-to-screenshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/the-right-to-screenshot\/","title":{"rendered":"The right to screenshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1273\" title=\"Screen Shot 2017-05-21 at 9.01.07 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-21-at-9.01.07-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1350\" height=\"662\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-21-at-9.01.07-AM.png 1350w, https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-21-at-9.01.07-AM-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-21-at-9.01.07-AM-1024x502.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1350px) 100vw, 1350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I get asked for permission to publish screenshots from my games. It annoys me a bit because all my games are released under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/3.0\/deed.en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Creative Commons<\/a> and, besides, I don&#8217;t see screenshots or video recordings ever falling outside of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fair use<\/a>. Streamers, youtubers, and machinima artists can even make a living out of commenting and manipulating recordings gameplay. The documentation of a dynamic, interactive piece is always transformative, participatory, and many steps removed from the actual work. Architects don&#8217;t prohibit taking pictures of their buildings.<br \/>\nDespite that, the publishing industry and academia are quite attached to pre-internet conventions, and fair use is not always valid outside of the United States. Therefore I, Paolo Pedercini, representing the project known as molleindustria, hereby state that:<\/p>\n<p><em>All screenshots and video recordings of molleindustria games and products are to be considered public domain and can be reproduced without permission or attribution for any commercial and non commercial use.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can download relatively high resolution screenshots of most games on this website from <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/14hMSj-NDMx5f7HJGvrjgrHWrYnKQXvRu\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I get asked for permission to publish screenshots from my games. It annoys me a bit because all my games are released under Creative Commons and, besides, I don&#8217;t see screenshots or video recordings ever falling outside of fair use. Streamers, youtubers, and machinima artists can even make a living out of commenting and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/the-right-to-screenshot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The right to screenshot&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.molleindustria.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}