How about old movie stills--is permission required from the copyright owner before copying stills and distributing these stills to the public?
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This depends on whether the copyright in the old movie is still in force. If it is, permission is required. If not, then anyone is free to copy and distribute the stills, as they have entered the public domain. It is irrelevant that the work is being copied from one medium to another, or that only one frame is being copied. If the copy is recognizable as such and the copyright is still in force, doing so is an infringement.
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