Legal Usage of Movie Posters and Images on Websites?

Question by neurolanis: Legal Usage of Movie Posters and Images on Websites?
I am working on a website idea that will be making up fake movie posters and I am wondering what the legal ramifications might be if I were to be making a profit off of this. Would it be legal to make a profit from a website using posters and images from films, even if those images are edited to be made look like other movies? Like say, I might pretend that they are making another Rocky film called Sock ’em Rocky (as a gag) but using edited images from the other films. Is this legal?
Please note that the purpose is not to sell images but use them on a website for comedic purposes that would be making a profit off ad revenues.

Best answer:

Answer by Ralph 124c41
Probably not any more. The DMCA severely restricts how any digital material can be used. Older materials that are out of copyright would be usable, but DMCA also extends the length of copyrights. The law itself runs to 60 pages and is difficult to understand. You can try, though. It’s http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=105_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ304.105.pdf or you can try a summary and assume the summarizer got it right at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act .

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