Legal to print your own movie posters?

[highland145]

I'm dreaming of a future in which terms like "man cave" are a thing of the past.

So, you like chick flicks.

 

[purbeast0]

OP, a while back i made some of my own acoustical panels with movie pictures as the themes of them. i made a thread about it.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2366746&highlight=acoustical

you may want to check out the link in there to the tutorial on how to make them as well. i really enjoyed making them and have since made other pictures to hang around the house

EDIT:

after reading the thread, i see anubis also linked to the panels on AVS. that is the thread i followed to build mine.

 

[Jeff7]

I'm dreaming of a future in which terms like "man cave" are a thing of the past.

Man hole? No Girls Allowed? Chamber of Solitude? The FapWagon? What?

 

[EliteRetard]

TV's are dirt cheap, turn them and mount on the wall and display whatever posters you want whenever you want.

 

[DrPizza]

Wow, thanks for the AVS tip on printing those panels!

 

[slackerinabox]

<--- IP attorney, but not your attorney

Assuming you live in the U.S. - if the hypothetical movie posters in question are copyrighted (which they probably are) - and you do not own a license to reproduce said posters (which you likely do not) - reproducing them for any use (except fair use, which is a limited exception that probably does not apply in the hypothetical situation) is a violation of federal copyright law. There are stiff (mostly financial) penalities for copyright violations. Many/most people who disregard copyright law do not get caught, but those who do are usually not pleased with the ultimate outcome.

FYI - the bulk of the cost of a framed movie poster is usually the frame, not the poster per se. If you want to steal from someone (and that is what ignoring someone's copyright is), steal from the thieves who charge ridiculous money for framing a picture.

Thanks for the insight, and you're right. Not going to do it! Yes, it's the frame that costs the money (the posters are like $15, no big deal)- the last time we got a movie poster sized poster framed was nearly $150! I suppose I could just tape the damn posters to my wall, or get cheapy frames and attempt to frame them myself.

 

[sdifox]

Thanks for the insight, and you're right. Not going to do it! Yes, it's the frame that costs the money (the posters are like $15, no big deal)- the last time we got a movie poster sized poster framed was nearly $150! I suppose I could just tape the damn posters to my wall, or get cheapy frames and attempt to frame them myself.

if you are moderately handy, frames are not hard to do.