I am involved in a project here at the University of Michigan that is

reprinting materials relating to Japan. One of the series we're

developing is devoted to Japanese film. I am wondering if anyone out

there knows how copyright works for some unusual things like:



---Internal studio memoranda from the 1920s to the end of World War II.

Some of the records are from Toho, which of course is still around.

Others are from smaller studios that folded during WWII. Still others

are from studios that stopped in the war, but were revived under a new

name in the 1950s.



---Japanese language subtitling scripts for early 1930s Hollywood films.



---Film journals from the 1920s and 1930s. They are long out of print,

but the authors have died only recently. Does every article have to be

cleared with relatives?



Thanks for any clues...



Markus







A. M. Nornes

Program in Film and Video Studies

Department of Asian Languages and Cultures

University of Michigan

2512 Frieze Building

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285

Phone: 734-647-2094

FAX: 734-936-1846



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