Copyright & fair use

• Where the images come from
• Why we believe this is fair use
• What we don’t do
• TMDB
• Trademarks and endorsement
• Asking us to change or remove something

Where the images come from

• Our own work. Every description, recipe and pairing, and all the illustrated “screenprint” cards, icons and artwork in the app, were written or drawn for Cozie Night. The Cozie Night name, app, website, text and design are © 2026 Cozie Night. All rights reserved.
• Photographs of food, drink and cozy corners come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences (public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA). Each one is credited, with its author, licence and a link to the original, in the app under About › Image credits and on our credits page.
• Film and series posters are provided by The Movie Database (TMDB) through its API and load from TMDB’s image servers when viewed.
• Book covers and video game and board game art are the official cover or key art for each work, taken from Open Library, Wikipedia or the work’s store page. The source of each is recorded and listed on our credits page.

The copyright in posters, covers and key art belongs to the studios, publishers, authors, illustrators and developers who made them.

Why we believe this is fair use

We use posters, covers and key art only to identify the work we are recommending, next to our own writing about it, the way a review, a library catalogue or a bookshop recommendation would. We believe this is fair use under US copyright law (17 U.S.C. § 107), and fair dealing or the equivalent where it applies elsewhere, for these reasons:

1. Purpose. The image identifies the work alongside our own commentary: why it suits a certain night, who it suits, what to eat with it. It is used for recommendation and commentary, not as decoration or merchandise.
2. Nature of the works. Covers and posters are published promotional images, made to be shown wherever the work is talked about.
3. Amount. We show one small, reduced-resolution image per work, never the work itself: no film clips or stills beyond the poster, no book text beyond the title, no game footage.
4. Effect on the market. Seeing a cover in Cozie Night can’t replace reading, watching or playing the work. Its only effect is to send people towards it: most works have a link to where they can be legitimately watched, bought, borrowed or played.

This is our good-faith position, not a licence from any rights holder. If you hold the rights to an image and see it differently, please tell us. We’ll respect your wishes.

What we don’t do

• We don’t stream, host, sell or distribute any film, series, book or game.
• We don’t use anyone’s artwork in our own marketing, App Store screenshots or icon, except as it appears inside the app’s screens next to the work it identifies.
• We don’t alter artwork, apart from resizing it and fitting it into a card.
• We don’t charge for access to any particular work. Cozie Night+ pays for the app itself: the night planner, our writing, recipes and tools.

TMDB

Trademarks and endorsement

Titles, names, logos and characters are trademarks of their respective owners. Showing them doesn’t mean their owners endorse, sponsor or are affiliated with Cozie Night, and we don’t claim they do.

Asking us to change or remove something

If you own or represent the rights to an image, text or other material in Cozie Night and would like it credited differently, replaced or removed, email highlyintellectualmind@gmail.com with:

1. the work and the image or material concerned (a screenshot helps);
2. your name, and your relationship to the rights holder;
3. what you’d like us to do: credit, replace or remove;
4. a statement that you believe in good faith the use isn’t authorised, and that the information in your message is accurate.

We reply to every request, usually within a few working days. When asked to remove an image, we take it out in the next app update, which we prioritise for these requests, and show the work with our own illustrated card instead. A formal notice under the DMCA or your local law is welcome but not required.