requesting permission to reproduce images

[Melek Ortabasi]

Hi Brian,

Thanks for the useful advice. We'll see how much they're willing to 
negotiate this issue.

BTW, thanks for citing me in your book. I ordered it for Hamilton's 
library, and I know that a couple of students have checked it out 
already.

Cheers,
Melek

>--- Melek Ortabasi <mortabas at hamilton.edu> wrote:
>>
>>  2. I am currently writing an article on Kon Satoshi's _Millennium
>>  Actress_ to be included in an anthology forthcoming from a trade
>>  press. Would I need to contact Mad House for permission to use frame
>>  grabs, or could I just talk to Dreamworks (Go Fish)? If I need to go
>>  to Japan on this, does anyone have any advice/help?
>
>You might want to check with what the trade press publisher thinks you
>have to do. When I was preparing images for "Stray Dog of Anime," my
>editor at Palgrave Macmillan told me that their lawyers had determined
>that I could use up to two screen grabs from each film under discussion
>-- this would count as "fair use" in my case, so I wouldn't have to get
>permission from any of the copyright holders. I don't know if this is a
>standard rule of thumb, but it really saved me some headaches.
>
>(I'm really glad that I didn't have to go to the Japanese copyright
>holders. One of the guys I was talking with at the Japanese animation
>company Production IG said that when they wanted to publish a book
>celebrating the anniversary of the company it took them years to secure
>all of the image permissions to their own material.)
>
>On the other hand, I've had some dealings with some of the PR people
>over at Go Fish and they've always been really helpful, so it probably
>couldn't hurt to give that a shot.
>
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Melek Ortabasi
Department of Comparative Literature