Question about films Stills/lobby cards copyright and terms of use

[Rob Smith]

I don't know about France, but in the US promotional material is free under
a fair use license, otherwise every movie review would just be bare text
because magazines and papers put as little money as possible into the art
sections.

You editor at the magazine should know what he/she can and can't use,
though. .

On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 2:31 PM, <eigagogo at free.fr> wrote:

> Dear,
>
> I'm currently writing an article (about Toei) for french e-magazine Ecrans
> d'Asie (http://www.ecrans-asie.com/. Although the content can be freely
> read
> online, it can also be printed with professional standard (300dpi).
>
> I used to wrote on websites where DVd screen captures were used, but this
> convenient alternative is not anymore possible to get 'hi-resolution'
> material.
> I guess the only solution to illustrate my text is to use lobby
> cards/stills
> from the editor/producer.
> No doubt this issue will prove to be tricky when it comes to independant
> production or big studio such as Toei/Nikkatsu.
> I heard such stills were 'free of use' as long as they were used for
> magazine (a
> reason why Hotwax has chosen the magazine format?)
>
> As exemple, i would like to use this great still of Midori Mako in Abaruse
> ...
> how can i do ?
> http://db.eiren.org/contents/03000009547.html
>
> Any advice are much welcomed as i am totally lost! :)
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Martin Vieillot
>



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