[KineJapan] permission to reproduce movie stills

[Erik R. Lofgren]

Dear Nina,

If it is a published still, the following will be little to no help, I
suspect.  If it is a screen capture, then it may be, although you may
already be aware of it, in that case.

I wished to include a couple of screen captures for a recent article and
the journal, as we might expect, asked whether I had permission.  I
referred them to the Society for Cinema and Media Studies guide from 1992
<https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/fairusefilmstills.pdf>
(which, as the colleague in film studies who alerted me to this document
noted, has not been updated since then as there's not been a single case of
litigation over film stills since this guide was issued) and said that I
was following this reasoning.  Therefore, I did not have formal
permission (because I thought my use fell under the "fair use" guidelines
outlined in the guide).  I said that if the journal was comfortable with
accepting the rationale I shared with them, great, and if not, I would
withdraw the images.  They decided to accept the rationale and published
the article with the images.

Best,

Erik

On Sat, Jul 2, 2022 at 11:23 AM Nina Cornyetz via KineJapan <
kinejapan at mailman.yale.edu> wrote:

> Good morning,
> I'm looking for where to turn to get permission to use a film still for an
> article in a volume about Japanese arts; Also, where to turn for photos of
> writers and staged dramas?
> thanks for any help on this. I'm clueless.
> Nina Cornyetz
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Erik R. Lofgren
Associate Professor and Chair
East Asian Studies Department

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