<div dir="ltr">Hi Earl, <div><br></div><div>There generally are four tests for whether you can claim fair use: </div><div><br></div><div>1) Are you doing this for profit, or for the purposes of education, etc.? </div><div><br></div><div>2) Are you bringing the material under analysis or critique, or just cutting and pasting (which would be stealing)? Put simply, is your work transformative? That's one of the most important things now, and helps explain the existence of things like The Daily Show.</div><div><br></div><div>3) Are you using a substantial portion (or all) of a work? 1/24th of a second of a feature film is not substantial. (But reproducing a PR still or poster is.)</div><div><br></div><div>4) Will your use of the image adversely impact the copyright owner's ability to profit from the work? </div><div><br></div><div>Because you are clear on the four tests, you can claim fair use. Pretty much all the major publishers have accepted this. I would direct your publisher to the major textbooks of Bordwell and Thompson. They never ask for permissions for any of their books, which include hundreds and hundreds of frame grabs. Since they include money-making textbooks, they are the first authors that copyright holders would target to test the fair use law. That no one has brought them to court says a lot. Your publisher is safe. </div><div><br></div><div>BTW, the test above was developed with lawyers by a group of film scholars and filmmakers led by Pat Aufderheide and Gordon Quinn of the Kartemquin film collective. If you want to learn more, Pat's book "Reclaiming Faire Use" is fascinating. </div><div><br></div><div>You can consult the following </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/fairusefilmstills.pdf">http://c.ymcdn.com/sites/www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/docs/fairusefilmstills.pdf</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=fair_use">http://www.cmstudies.org/?page=fair_use</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>If your publisher doesn't relate. Jump ship. There are plenty of others. I want to see your book with every single picture. </div><div><br></div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div class="" title="Page 3"><div class=""><div class="">
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</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Which publisher?<div><br></div><div>Markus</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 5:47 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear Everyone,<div>I am writing an essay on Japanese War films. The editor tells me I must get explicitly stated permission for every screen-grab still I include. All of the films are at least 61 years old. Most are Shochiku and some are Toho. I would deeply appreciate any advice on how I go about this, or on how to make a convincing case that including such stills are protected by Fair Use considerations.</div><div>thank you.</div><div>best</div><div>ej<br clear="all"><div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Earl Jackson</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div>Professor</div><div>National Chiao Tung University</div></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Associate Professor, Emeritus</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">University of California, Santa Cruz</div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Co-Director<br></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small">Trans-Asia Screen Cultures Institute</div></div></div></div>
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