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Images used across Frame Rated are covered by “Fair Use” (US) and “Fair Dealing” (UK) laws.

Fair use allows for limited use of copyrighted material for purposes such as criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research. Our ur use of these images falls within this scope of fair use, as it’s either transformative and/or used for the above reasons.

Images are contextually relevant to discussion, don’t impact the market of the original, and are used for the benefit of the public in works related to criticism, comment, and news reporting. This is not an infringement of copyright. If you are a copyright holder and believe your material has been used improperly, please contact us so we can address your concerns.

Images used are widely provided in marketing and promotional materials made available online for this said, often provided to us by various PR companies hired to assist their clients generate interest in films or TV series being broadcast, streamed, or released on physical media.

You can read more about Fair Use policies below:

US: Title 17 of the U.S Copyright Act Section 107.

UK: Sections 29 & 30 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998.