<div dir="ltr">Dear Markus<div>Thank you for this clarification. I had a terrible time with an editor of a special issue of a journal a couple years ago. I had a screen grab that was a detail of a single shot of a film 61 years old but the editor insisted on asking Toho if we could include it and they said no, while adding they had forgotten they even had made that film. I still get annoyed thinking about it.</div><div>I'm so glad your publication program is rational.</div><div>best</div><div>ej<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial">Earl Jackson</div><div style="font-family:arial"><div>Chair Professor</div><div>Foreign Languages and Literatures</div><div>Asia University</div><div>Professor Emeritus</div><div>National Chiao Tung University</div></div><div style="font-family:arial">Associate Professor Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial">University of California, Santa Cruz<br></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 4, 2022 at 7:36 AM Markus Nornes via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I thought I'd follow up on Erik's useful post. <div><br></div><div>If you want more nuance than that, search the KineJapan archives for some involved explanations of this issue. </div><div><br></div><div>In short, for materials still under copyright period, you need permission—except for frame grabs, which are treated like "quotations" of a larger work. </div><div><br></div><div>As Erik notes, there is wiggle room. But it's room publishers need to take. Some editors are gun-shy and want to play by the book. Others see how there has not been litigation, so are willing to look the other way to varying degrees. </div><div><br></div><div>I've been publishing with University of Michigan Press—and am director of the CJS pubs program—and they are forward leaning on this issue. Frame grabs are fine. Publicity stills and posters should be cleared. However, sometimes the copyright owner is hard to determine, or simply unresponsive after multiple attempts. If the author/editor can provide a clutch of correspondence showing due diligence to clear copyright, we'll usually go forward and use the images. </div><div><br></div><div>Personally, I think that's a sweet spot and respect the press for taking this position. Other presses will be more careful. It's something to ask about when approaching a press in the first place. </div><div><br></div><div>I'll end this with a plug for Center for Japanese Studies Publication Program at Michigan. We like images and well-designed books, have good copy-editing, release in hard and soft cover versions, and at prices you can actually afford. <b><u>We are always looking for good books from any field in Japan Studies. Contact me, please! </u></b></div><div><b><u><br></u></b></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">--- </span></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b><img width="55" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wpadRRhHYSz0N5UbUflm2YEIclCcg0bTCCBEh81fkJ8isCMwomHpMoky49pEF7xzc4MTMR-PM"><br></b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><font face="courier new, monospace" color="#274e13"><b>Markus Nornes</b></font></div><div style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b>Professor of Asian Cinema</b></font></span></div><div style="font-size:small"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29);font-family:"courier new",monospace">Interim Chair, Dept. of Asian Languages and Culture</b><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace"><font color="#38761d"><b><br></b></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="1" color="#38761d"><font face="courier new, monospace">Department of Film, Television and Media</font><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, Penny Stamps </span><span style="font-family:"courier new",monospace">School of Art & Design</span></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="arial, sans-serif" size="1"><b><u><span style="background-color:rgb(182,215,168)">Homepage: <a href="http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/" target="_blank"><font color="#ffffff">http://www-personal.umich.edu/~nornes/</font></a></span><font color="#6aa84f"><br></font></u></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Department of Film, Television and Media<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>6348 North Quad<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>105 S. State Street<br></b></font><font face="courier new, monospace" size="1" color="#93c47d"><b>Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285</b></font></blockquote></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 1:23 AM Erik R. Lofgren via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Nina,<div><br></div><div>If it is a published still, the following will be little to no help, I suspect. If it is a screen capture, then it may be, although you may already be aware of it, in that case.</div><div><br></div><div>I wished to include a couple of screen captures for a recent article and the journal, as we might expect, asked whether I had permission. I referred them to the <a href="https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/fairusefilmstills.pdf" target="_blank">Society for Cinema and Media Studies guide from 1992</a> (which, as the colleague in film studies who alerted me to this document noted, has not been updated since then as there's not been a single case of litigation over film stills since this guide was issued) and said that I was following this reasoning. Therefore, I did not have formal permission (because I thought my use fell under the "fair use" guidelines outlined in the guide). I said that if the journal was comfortable with accepting the rationale I shared with them, great, and if not, I would withdraw the images. They decided to accept the rationale and published the article with the images.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Erik</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 11:23 AM Nina Cornyetz via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@mailman.yale.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Good morning,<div>I'm looking for where to turn to get permission to use a film still for an article in a volume about Japanese arts; Also, where to turn for photos of writers and staged dramas? </div><div>thanks for any help on this. I'm clueless.</div><div>Nina Cornyetz</div></div>
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