<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:14pt"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" role="gridcell" tabindex="0" style="display: table; width: auto; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; padding-top: 12px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', 'Segoe UI', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div id="yiv8764163175" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;" class=""><div class="" style="">Japanese media informed today of the passing of Yamaguchi Yoshiko.</div><div class="" style=""><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20140914/k10014592341000.html" style="color: rgb(25, 106, 212);" class="">Yamaguchi
Yoshiko-NHK News</a></div></div></div></div></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14pt;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <font size="2" face="Arial" class="" style=""> On Thursday, 11 September 2014, 23:19, Maria Roberta Novielli <novielli@unive.it> wrote:<br class="" style=""> </font> </div> <br class="" style=""><br class="" style=""> <div class="" style=""><div id="yiv9957305679" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div dir="ltr" class="" style="">Thank you, Markus. However, in Italy we have very strict rules on the matter, since we have to demonstrate that we actually got the permission to publish a still. <div class=""
style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Best,</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Roberta</div></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style="">2014-09-11 2:16 GMT+02:00 Markus Nornes <span dir="ltr" class="" style=""><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu" class="" style="">amnornes@umich.edu</a>></span>:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">From the POV of North American publishing, the question of frame grabs (from video or film) appears settled. There are good posts on the background for this on the SCMS website and Bordwell's blog. They consider it the equivalent of a quote, so no need to contact rights holders. Obviously, NHK is taking this position.
Good for them!<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">(This has, by the way transformed book design. Now many publishers use page layouts that accommodate small images, since DVD grabs pixel out when blown up.)</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">So I would assert fair use and let the publisher lead the way. If they balk, you could try showing them the websites above, although they are aimed primarily at American publishers. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">I once worked with a press that was sitting on the fence. I pointed out that if anyone is going to get sued over this, it'd be Thompson and Bordwell. Their textbooks make a lot of money and they've never paid for frame blow ups. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">As for the
photo from the children's book, you couldn't claim fair use unless the book itself was the object of analysis. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Markus</div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">PS: Covers are another matter. As PR instruments, they are not covered by fair use principles. </div><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">On Thursday, September 11, 2014, Mark Roberts <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mroberts37@mail-central.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:mroberts37@mail-central.com" class=""
style="">mroberts37@mail-central.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote class="" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;" class="">Dear Roberta,<div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><div class="" style=""><div class="" style="">On Sep 10, 2014, at 10:01 PM, Maria Roberta Novielli wrote:</div><br clear="none" class="" style=""><blockquote type="cite" class="" style=""><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium;" class=""></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;" class="">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></blockquote></div><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">My understanding has been that the production company is the rights holder, not the distributor. There is, as you note, a question in the case of production companies that no longer exist. I gather that the rights often go to the director or his/her family, but I am not sure about the law on this. For example, the ATG films are not old enough to be public domain, but the production company is defunct. What is their status?</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">There is thus a lingering question in my mind about whether it is really necessary to go through the formality of contacting the rights holder. I have heard via the Copyright Research and Information Center of Japan (<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.cric.or.jp/" class=""
style="">http://www.cric.or.jp/</a>), that this is "recommended", even if it merely to inform them that you intend to use DVD stills in a publication. Of course, if the production company no longer exists, it may not be so simple to do this.</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">It would be helpful to know how to handle this situation, and especially what to tell a publisher. </div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">I hope somebody on KineJapan more knowledgable than I can weigh in on this.</div><div class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""></div><div class="" style="">Mark</div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div><span class="" style=""><font color="#888888" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style=""><br clear="none" class="" style="">-- <br clear="none" class="" style=""></font></span><div dir="ltr" class=""
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