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I'm inclined to believe that this falls under fair use based on the
few court rulings I've read about similar issues. I don't care what
we decide though. If we're putting a stop screenshots like this,
then the theme unit test data must be revised to include images and
other media that are licensed under the GPL. I know many people,
myself included, have screenshots that include theme unit test data.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/12/2013 11:07 PM, Rohit Tripathi
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<div dir="ltr">I was asked to update my screenshots for a theme
because, a part of the screenshot contained an image(post with
featured image) from a movie. Obviously, the movie is
copyrighted to someone else, but I am not distributing the
poster with the theme. Secondly, I am not violating any
copyrights too. Screenshots are just demonstrations of a site
using my theme. What can be a better screenshot than the
screenshot of a real site actually using the theme?
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<div>Secondly, if the images shown in the screenshots itself
have to be under GPL then there can be many problems with a
large amount of themes. None of the themes, declare licenses
for the images/site used to create the screenshot. I bet most
of them are not GPL. But, it doesn't matter we are not
distributing the images. It only makes the theme looks good.
Moreover, we are not using paid or pirated images. Also, the
images used to build the screenshot are not even Default
images in the theme, that they would show up in theme preview.</div>
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<div>Thirdly, even the components of the Theme Unit test might
cause a conflict with the screenshot being GPL. For e.g. the <b>Post
Format Test: Video</b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(in
theme unit test)</span><b style="font-size: 12pt;">, </b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;">if the screenshot contains that
particular post, then the video would appear in it. The
image of the Video/or the Thumbnail of the video is not
under GPL. So, isn't that a problem?</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All I want to say is that,
we are all using fully GPL compatible resources in our
themes. I think, there shouldn't be such strictness on the
themes. Also, I would completely respect the decision taken
by theme admins on this. But, I atleast request you to
understand the genuinity of the cause I bring to you.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Regards,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rohit Tripathi</span></div>
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