# How do sites like "Celebrity Movie Archive" stay in business?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 19, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sites-like-celebrity-movie-archive-stay-in-business/473386 "2008-11-19T00:00:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sites-like-celebrity-movie-archive-stay-in-business/473386/1 "2008-11-19T00:00:36Z")

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[www.celebritymoviearchive.com](http://www.celebritymoviearchive.com) and others make money by selling copyrighted clips. They do it quite openly, and have many clips I’m sure the legal owners would like taken down. How do they manage to keep those clips up without trouble?

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**Author:** ![YamatoTwinkie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/cc9497/32.png) [@YamatoTwinkie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YamatoTwinkie)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sites-like-celebrity-movie-archive-stay-in-business/473386/2 "2008-11-19T00:50:27Z")

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I don’t know if [Fair Use](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use) is justified. Often sites will try to pass off their content as “criticism.”

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sites-like-celebrity-movie-archive-stay-in-business/473386/3 "2008-11-19T02:52:26Z")

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I asked this same question a couple of months back ([How do websites like Mr Skin stay in business?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=477377)). Toadspittle provided a link to an article that showed that the studios apparently accept this as a form of publicity for the films.

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2016, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-sites-like-celebrity-movie-archive-stay-in-business/473386/5 "2016-04-07T14:06:30Z")

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Champion1, we prefer that old threads in General Questions only be bumped for new factual information. I’m going to close this.