Thanks Mark. now I can read it. <div>I guess now I will go through the ridiculous japanese legal jargon to figure it out. </div><div><br></div><div>Yuki</div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Mark Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mroberts37@mail-central.com">mroberts37@mail-central.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Yuki,<div><br></div><div>Yes, the page for 著作権法第32条 doesn't have the correct HTML to specify encoding, but you can read it by selecting <b>View</b> > <b>Text Encoding</b> > <b>Japanese (Shift JIS)</b> in Safari. It's a problem on their end, not yours.</div>
<div><br></div><div>More to the point, I'm not sure of the status of BeeTV content. Hopefully, somebody more knowledgeable will chime in about that.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div>
<div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Mar 6, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Yuki Nakayama wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thank you for the detailed explanation. Unfortunately the link Mark gave for 著作権法第32条<font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"> is corrupt and I am unable to read it. </font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">(it maybe because I am a mac user, but the page is not readable). </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">I wanted to check if how much web content is covered by this law. </font>I am specifically thinking content provider/creators such as BeeTV, cell phone channel available for subscription for docomo users providing online content (dramas, variety shows, etc) some of which are also available on their youtube account. Would frame grabs from these type of online content (such as BeeTV's youtube account) fall under the same guidelines explained by Mark? or be considered same as publicity material and require permission from the copyright holder? </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Yuki Nakayama</div><div>(<a href="mailto:yuki.nakayama@gmail.com" target="_blank">yuki.nakayama@gmail.com</a>)</div><div>New York University </div><div>Tisch School of the Arts</div><div>
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<div>M.A. Candidate</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Mark Nornes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank">amnornes@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Fantastic! Thanks for the details. <div><br></div><div>Now we need someone to do the same kind of research on the issue of shozoken. I really wonder the degree to which this "respect" for shozoken is backed by law. <br>
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<br><div><div>On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">To belatedly follow up on this, I managed to convince the publisher that there are no rights issues concerning DVD frame grabs. I would like to thank all of you on KineJapan for your supportive and very helpful responses about this, both on and off-list. <div>
<br></div><div>On the chance that anybody else confronts this in the future, here is a summary of what I learned. This is based upon discussion with Aaron, Markus, and informal consultation with three different Japanese IP lawyers, all of whom were in agreement.<br>
<div><br></div><div>First, there is a difference between using publicity photographs, which do require permission from the production company, and DVD stills, which do not.</div><div><br></div><div>The use of DVD stills is covered under article 32.1 of the Japanese copyright law<font color="#222222"> (</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="http://www.cric.or.jp/db/article/a1.html#032" target="_blank"><u><font face="Times">著作権法第32条</font></u></a>)</span>, according to which academics are entitled to reproduce quotations for research purposes. Two conditions must be met: (1) the quotation must be a smaller unit than the entire text, where "smaller" means a fragment, and does not concern the size of the image; and (2) the purpose of including the quotation should serve some kind of argument or analysis. I.e., it's not just there to "look good". (Thanks to Kim Icreverzi for clarifying these details.)</div>
<div><br></div><div>This was recently tested in court, in the case of Uesugi Satoshi vs. Kobayashi Yoshinori:</div><div><br></div><div><b>平成11(ネ)4783 平成12年04月25日 東京高等裁判所</b></div><div><a href="http://hanrei.biz/h50421" target="_blank">http://hanrei.biz/h50421</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>This case concerned a book that quoted Kobayashi's manga "Sensō-ron", with the court deciding that scholars can reproduce panels from a manga without permission, for the purposes of academic discussion and analysis. The case was appealed and the decision of a lower court was upheld by Tokyo Kosai.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I suspect that I may not be the last person to encounter resistance from a publisher, and hopefully some of this information might prove useful.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>
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</div><div><div>Mark Roberts</div><div><div>Research Fellow, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy<br><a href="http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/blog/mark_roberts/index_en.php" target="_blank">http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/blog/mark_roberts/index_en.php</a></div>
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