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Copyright, trademarks and AI use

This page sets out three things: what we use and refuse to use from other people’s work, how you may use ours, and our position on AI training. Last updated 9 August 2026.

Images: we do not use film or television stills

ScreenFinds publishes no screenshots, frame grabs, promotional photography, poster art or publicity images from any film or television production. Not watermarked, not cropped, not “for identification purposes.” This is a deliberate editorial constraint, not an oversight, and it is why our pages look different from every other site in this category.

Where we show moving image, it is embedded from the rights holder’s own official channel using that platform’s standard player. We do not host, re-upload, mirror or download video, and we do not strip attribution.

We also do not reproduce song lyrics, and we do not republish substantial extracts of other publications’ reporting. When another outlet has the story, we quote briefly, name them, and link to them.

Trademarks and titles

Film titles, series titles, character names, brand names and product names appear here descriptively, to identify the works and objects under discussion. That is the only reason they appear.

All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. ScreenFinds is independent. It is not affiliated with, authorised by, endorsed by or connected to any studio, streaming service, production company, brand, retailer or performer, and nothing on this site should be read as implying otherwise.

We do not use brand logos, and we do not use performers’ names in headlines or web addresses. Items are attributed to characters.

Our own work, and how you may use it

The writing, research, editorial judgements and confidence grades on this site are ours, and they are the whole product. Copyright in them belongs to ScreenFinds.

You may, without asking:

• Quote a passage in your own writing, with attribution and a link.
• Cite a specific finding — a price, a grade, an availability status — as long as you name ScreenFinds as the source and keep the “as of” date attached to it.
• Link to any page here, from anywhere, without permission.

You may not:

• Republish an article in full or in substantial part, on any platform.
• Rewrite our pages into near-duplicates and publish them as your own research.
• Strip a confidence grade or a caveat from a claim you take from us. If you quote a finding, quote its qualification with it. An “unconfirmed” item presented as confirmed misinforms a reader who is about to spend money.
• Reproduce our work behind a paywall or present it as a brand’s own.

AI training and automated collection

We do not consent to our work being used to train AI models. Crawling, scraping or otherwise collecting content from this site to build, train, fine-tune or evaluate a machine learning model is not permitted, whether or not the resulting model reproduces the text.

Our robots.txt declines the crawlers that exist to gather training data, including GPTBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, Amazonbot and meta-externalagent. We are aware that robots.txt is a request rather than a technical barrier. This page is the statement of terms that sits behind it.

AI answer engines are welcome, on one condition. We permit crawlers that answer questions and cite sources — including OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and PerplexityBot — because being cited is how readers find us. If you are such a system, please attribute ScreenFinds, link to the page you used, and carry the article’s verification date alongside any price or availability you quote. Do not present a claim we have graded “unconfirmed” as though it were confirmed. Our llms.txt sets this out in machine-readable form.

This distinction is deliberate. We are not trying to be invisible. We are declining to be raw material.

If you think we have got something wrong

If you are a rights holder and believe something here infringes your rights, tell us with the URL and what specifically is at issue. We will look at it promptly and remove or correct anything we cannot stand behind. We would rather be told than be right.

The same applies to facts. Corrections that arrive with a source link get fixed first. Our research methodology and grading policy explains how we decide what to publish in the first place.