Taking Screenshots

[Sven Koerber]

Thank You very much for Your advices.

I have been searching screenshots on (English) Google and Lycos
before, but these are mostly shots which somehow "promote" the film.
Most of them are photos of the great scenes in the movie (mainly to 
attract audience).
I would like to find some shots which show the whole "expression" of
the movie itself (... damn, hard to describe what I mean ... :-().
Just like the final punch in a box fight is often showed to describe the
whole fight, but You don't get a view of what really went on there all the
rounds ...

Now I am going to search the Japanese search engines You 
mentioned, since I am a little bit afraid of getting trouble with over-
motivated lawyers ... 

Greetings,

Sven Koerber
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Mes 
  To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu 
  Sent: Monday, May 12, 2003 11:25 AM
  Subject: Re: Taking Screenshots


  >maybe I want to put this article on my homepage. 
  >Is it legal to put the photos there too ? 

  If in any way possible, try to find real stills from the films you will be writing about, even if they come from another website. You'd be amazed at how many stills you can find online, especially if you search using a film's kanji title via a Japanese search engine like Google Japan. If you don't have the kanji title or you're working on a computer on which you can't type kanji, try typing the film's English title or romaji title in Google Japan, then check the box that says "search Japanese sites only" and click on search. Very often you will find a site that has the kanji title of the film, which you can then cut and paste back into Google Japan.

  Film stills are given out by the film's distributor with the aim of having them used in the media for promotional purposes, so these pictures are meant to be used in magazines and on websites, etc. Using those instead of screen shots basically puts you in the clear.

  The chance of a rights holder demanding money from you because of the stills you place on your website are fairly slim. In most cases, if they do find out and they object to the use, you will be asked to remove them. They're not going to sue you the moment they see such pictures on your site.

  Tom

  Midnight Eye
  http://www.midnighteye.com


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