Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-1504358-20190923180809/@comment-366087-20190923222910

Things with the law can get convoluted. Screen shots are typically straight up creators' copyright. Just depends on how tightly each holds onto their rights. As mentioned, usually they don't waste time going after non-profiting small fry, but will if someone is selling for profit (phone cases, t-shirts, etc.).

Part of the law takes into account "transformative/derivative works". This is generally in the realm of fan-arts and fan-fics. for example, Kim Possible belongs to disney, but Kim Possible drawn wearing a star-spangled bikini is a *composition* which Disney itself never did. Especially if the *artstyle* is suitably different from Official Art styles. So that transformative/derivative image has a *measure* of protection in that the artist injected a measure of their personal interpretation.

See? Convoluted. And while I'm unsure of the rest of the commenters here, I'm only a paralegal in a couple states. Which means that "I know enough to know I don't know enough".