Screenshots and fair use

After almost eighteen years of blogging, I received a first takedown notice last month, for a post with a screenshot from Robert Bresson’s Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne. One look at the details of the notice made clear that my post had been lumped in with sketchy streaming sites, most likely as a result of an automated search for the movie’s title. I filed a counter-claim, and now — hurrah — Google has restored my post.

This page might be useful to anyone who wonders about posting screenshots: “How does fair use work for screenshots?” (PennState University Libraries).