Question on Fair Use of Film Stills

[Aaron Gerow]

I have said this before, but film stills are likely copyrighted material (the studios recently are emphasizing that by stressing the copyright when the pass out stills at press screenings) and thus need permission.

My perception is that frame grabs, however, are quotations and do not need permission. The court precedent set with the Sensoron case, which allowed scholars to use panels from manga without permission, should hold with film. And academic publishers do seem to be following this.

Aaron Gerow


On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:19 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> This has doubtless come up before but I'm not finding it in my archive of KineJapan.
> 
> Question: what is the law on fair use of film stills in academic publications in Japan? I.e., non-profit, for academic use only.
> 
> I am now hearing that in lieu of written permission from a rights-holder, the only form of publication that is considered acceptable is a thumbnail image, approximately 1/3 of the printed column width. Does this sound correct?
> 
> Would anybody by chance have a reference to the law on this?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Mark Roberts
> Research Fellow, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy
> http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/blog/mark_roberts/index_en.php
> 

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