[KineJapan] Copyright-free images

[Maria Roberta Novielli]

Thank you, Aaron.

Best,

Roberta


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Maria Roberta Novielli
Associate Professor
Japanese Cinema and Literature

Artistic Direction and Overall Organization
Ca’ Foscari Short Film Festival
http://cafoscarishort.unive.it


Ca' Foscari University - Venice
Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà
Dorsoduro 3484/d
30123 VENEZIA

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2014-09-10 15:29 GMT+02:00 Gerow Aaron <aaron.gerow at yale.edu>:

> Roberta,
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> I have not heard anyone talk about 1978 as a cutoff year for Japan. The
> current copyright law went into effect in 1971, so in some cases, the
> question of whether a work was produced before that has been an issue (the
> Kurosawa court case), but in general, stills are treated like other
> photographs: they are in copyright for 50 years after the death of the
> author. They changed the period in 1997, so 1957 is now the crucial year
> for photos (before that, it was 50 years after release, and since the 1997
> revision did not revive works that had become public domain, most things
> before 1957 are thus public domain). See here for the Bunkacho summary:
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> http://chosakuken.bunka.go.jp/naruhodo/outline/4.4.html
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> Note that Wikipedia treats 1957 as the cutoff year for images from Japan.
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> The problem with stills is that there often is no author. I believe in
> those cases of corporate authors, it is 50 years after release.
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> Frame grabs from DVDs are another matter. Stills are individual works, but
> screenshots are not. I and others have argued that recent court cases in
> Japan--such as the one that validated the quotation of manga images in
> academic works without permission--the definition of quotation (which is
> allowed by law) includes frame grabs. I don't think that has come to court
> in Japan. Many foreign publishers treat frame grabs as quotations, and thus
> allow them, but not all do.
>
> This is not the most authoritative of answers, but I hope it helps.
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> Aaron Gerow
> Professor
> Film Studies Program/East Asian Languages and Literatures
> Director of Graduate Studies, EALL
> Yale University
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