Question on Fair Use of Film Stills

[Nornes, Markus]

Japan is a signer of the same international treaties, but everyone makes up their own shit. You are screwed!

How is that for official, legal interpretation?

m



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I don't believe it either, but I will need an authoritative statement (i.e., a law, not an interpretation) to support my claim.

For future reference, the SCMS statement seems to be here:

http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=positions_policies

However, the policies only seem to apply to publications in the U.S., and I'm trying to figure out the law in Japan.

Thanks,

Mark

On Feb 12, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Nornes, Markus wrote:

SCMS has a statement on their webpage. David Bordwell and Kristen Thompson have great posts on this on their blog.

I don't believe this. As far as I have heard and understand, a frame grab is treated like the quotation of a sentence from a larger written text.

m
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Subject: Question on Fair Use of Film Stills

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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