<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Dear Mark,</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Thank you for your prompt reply. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">I’m afraid that my book would not be completely considered as “academic”, since the publisher is a big company in Italy, not only related to academic works. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">I would use some stills taken from DVDs, but I wonder if the rights belong to the producers of the DVDs or to the original production companies, if still existing. </div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">Roberta</div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">_________________________</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span class="" style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Maria Roberta Novielli</div><div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Japanese Cinema and Literature</div></div><div><br></div><div>Artistic Direction and Overall Organization</div><div>Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival</div><div><a href="http://cafoscarishort.unive.it/">http://cafoscarishort.unive.it</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ca' Foscari University - Venice</div><div>Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage<br>Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà<br>Dorsoduro 3484/d<br>30123 VENEZIA</div><div><br>e mail: </div><div><a href="mailto:novielli@unive.it">novielli@unive.it</a></div><div><a href="mailto:cafoscarishort@unive.it">cafoscarishort@unive.it</a></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-09-10 14:46 GMT+02:00 Mark Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mroberts37@mail-central.com" target="_blank">mroberts37@mail-central.com</a>></span>:<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">Dear Roberta,<div><br></div><div>Are you using stills from DVDs?</div><div><br></div><div>While there is no "fair use" per se in Japan, my understanding has been that use of DVD stills in academic works is covered by <a href="http://www.cric.or.jp/english/clj/cl2.html#cl2_1+A32" target="_blank">article 32.1</a> of the Japanese copyright law (著作権法第32条). The main issue seems to be the formality of a "permission request", i.e., whether or not you need to contact the rights holder to "ask" if you may follow the law.</div><div><br></div><div>If anybody else has further thoughts about this, I too would be curious to hear them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>M. Roberts</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><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br><div><div><div class="h5"><div>On Sep 10, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Maria Roberta Novielli wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;text-align:-webkit-auto;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div>Dear Friends,</div><div><br></div><div>I have just completed my new book, an history of Japanese animated movies, to be published next January in Italy. I know each country has different laws regarding the publication of copyright-free stills. I think in Japan one can freely use pictures from a movie if it has been produced before 1978. Can anybody confirm or help me finding out the exact low?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you in advance.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roberta Novielli</div></span></div></div></span></div></span></div><br></div><br><br></div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px">_________________________</span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px"><br><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Maria Roberta Novielli</div><div><div>Associate Professor</div><div>Japanese Cinema and Literature</div></div><div><br></div><div>Artistic Direction and Overall Organization</div><div>Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival</div><div><a href="http://cafoscarishort.unive.it/" target="_blank">http://cafoscarishort.unive.it</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ca' Foscari University - Venice</div><div>Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage<br>Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà<br>Dorsoduro 3484/d<br>30123 VENEZIA</div><div><br>e mail: </div><div><a href="mailto:novielli@unive.it" target="_blank">novielli@unive.it</a></div><div><a href="mailto:cafoscarishort@unive.it" target="_blank">cafoscarishort@unive.it</a></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>
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