An application called "i-Covers" polls this list:
http://www.i-covers.net/en_bases.htm

for covers/posters.

-Ross.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Gabriel Sean Farrell
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> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote:
>> With some limitations, the Google Books API allows folks to access book
>> covers for free. (How's that working out? Anyone having luck with it?)
>> -- what about movie/DVD/VHS covers? Are there any free sources for those
>> images?
>>
>> I'd like to work up a virtual-browsing interface for our library's
>> pretty small collection of feature films, and I'd love to include
>> covers. Any ideas on how I might get them? Anyone else doing this?
>
> I've had some success with UPCs and worldcat.org for the Drexel
> Libraries Video Search[1].  A lot of our records lack an 024, though, so
> I fall back to ISBNs on Amazon, but the hit rate isn't as good there.
>
> For a collection the size of our video collection, we've considered just
> scanning them ourselves.
>
> Neither IMDB nor Netflix have public APIs yet.
>
> Gabriel
>
> [1] http://www.library.drexel.edu/video/
>