Movie screencaps (not animations) allowed

Movie screencaps are now allowed. No animations from the movie and nothing from cam rips; animations will follow normal length/sound rules following its release on US television.

Please go easy on the uploads so that normal artwork doesn’t get buried in movie screencaps.

We do not yet know when it will come to TV.

@Princess Luna

Please go easy on the uploads so that normal artwork doesn’t get buried in movie screencaps.

Ekhm, you know that filters exist.

Does this included edited screencaps as well, or is it only just normal screencaps?

I’m confused, Why are we waiting for a TV release to allow animated screen caps?

@Background Pony #8902
As a common courtesy to people who don’t want to have to filter it to avoid the flood, even if they like the movie.

@ice1517
As long as the original screencap isn’t a camrip or animated.

@Ihhh
Same reason we were careful about allowing screencaps at all: Lionsgate has a big suing hammer and we all look like nails. Screencaps from their released DVD is one thing, but whole clips is another entirely. Particularly now that we have Webms.

So will the screencaps on the MLP wiki be allowed, too?

@ApplejackFan204
They’re screencaps, so yes. Only camrips and animations arent allowed atm.

@soundtea
But do I still have put in the links to the screencap?

If you have a source for the screen cap, please provide it. But it is no longer required to prove that the screen cap isn’t from a leak or any other illegal source.

Do you think you should make a banner linking to this thread, so that more people will know its ok now?

@ArmadilloEater
What happens if the TV release cuts out stuff?

@Background Pony #B3B0
Wait. Are you .. seriously .. asking if it’s ok to post camrips contingent on scenes not being present in the TV version or something like that?

Maybe expand on your thoughts a little – it’s not clear what you’re trying to say.

@Derpy Whooves
What? No, what the fuck? I’m asking if scenes in the TV version are cut out for time or content, will animated screencaps still be allowed?

@Background Pony #B3B0
You’re asking us to speculate about something that hasn’t happened.

@Derpy Whooves
Excuse me for asking…

@Background Pony #B3B0
That’s actually an interesting question. I doubt anything will be cut, but if it is, I think we’d still allow animations from the DVD version.

@Princess Luna
Ah, okay. Yeah, I’m not too sure there would be stuff cut for time (at least not in a Canadian airing like for Equestria Girls,) but I don’t know about content they might deem "unsafe" for television (probably unlikely.)

I’m a little confused about this rule. The movie has already been released, as in there are physical copies available. More to the point, there are animations from the movie on here already that predate this rule.

@DragonRanger
If there are animations from the movie from before the rule there’s two options:
1) They are sourced to a trailer or publicly available video
2) They weren’t reported

As for the reason, it’s really about being careful when dealing with a litigious company (Lionsgate), we can’t really invoke "but the DVD is out" if they slap Derpi with a C&D for sharing clips of their movie.

I’m not entirely sure if Lionsgate has the right to C&D this site. As far as I know, they only own the right to distribute this movie. But I’m not a lawyer, so i’m not sure.

@Ihhh
Ealier (around the premiere) they blocked worldwide on YouTube clips from the movie (except trailers, promos) and it’s more less like here with gifs/webms. But Hasbro also blocks from time to time.
You never know but they also have rights so in worst case scenario it might happen.

I might suggest putting a banner on the main site to point to this thread. There’s been a few movie animations (not from promo material) recently. Fortunately no screencap flood, yet.

@Masem
Avoiding screencap flood is one of the reasons we didn’t do a banner. People will see the uploads and catch on little by little.

@ArmadilloEater
Good point.

Given the lifting of the ban on still images, are we allowed to re-upload stills that were uploaded and then taken down when the ban was active?

To use a specific example, I recently tried to upload a cropped screencap of Queen Novo (the same cropped screencap on the MLP wikia, for reference), but when I went to finish the upload I was informed that the image had been previously uploaded as #1580792 and then taken down for going against the movie screencap ban, and that I was thus not permitted to upload it again.

So, since the site bans the re-uploading of deleted images, I cannot upload that image even though it is permissible by site policy as its stands right now. So my question is, what should I do?