Obtaining Permssion for Public Anime Showings

Obtaining Permssion for Public Anime Showings

With the growth of the number of anime clubs and companies more and more anime is being publicly shown. Technically a club should obtain permission to show anime from the domestic distributor or, in the case of anime not distributed in the U.S., the original company.

Contacting the original company is not an option for most clubs since one needs to know Japanese to write a proper letter requesting permission for public shows. For this reason I shall focus on US companies, their policies and how to contact them.

Many public libraries have a public performance license which covers anime distributed by major studios such as as Go Fish, a susidiary of Dreamworks, and Buena Vista, the distributor of the anime of Studio Ghibli. Two major companies which handle such licensing are: Movie Licensing USA and Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC). If your club is using library facilities you may be covered by such a license.

When completed each entry shall consist of:

Main Page:: The URL to the main page for the company
Obtaining Permission:: The URL to the showing policy page of the company or the text of the policy if a page does not exist.; The date I obtain quoted text will be posted.; Note that a URL may change, several companies have yet to learn that Stable URLs are an asset.

Expect this page to evolve slowly.

It is my intent to encourage every company to have its showing policy on the web. If I cannot do this I will at least try to get them to put a contact email address up.

Feb 20, 2004 Thanks to John C. Watson for his assistance in updating this page.

A.D. Vision (A.D.Vision)

Main Page:: http://www.advfilms.com/
Obtaining Permission, see their Anime Advocates page:: http://www.advfilms.com/advocatesnew/about.asp

AN Entertainment

Main Page:: http://www.an-entertainment.com/
Obtaining Permission:: Non posted

Anime 18

AnimeWorks

AnimEigo (AnimEigo, Samurai Cinema)

Main Page:: http://WWW.ANIMEIGO.COM/
Obtaining Permission, in their FAQ:: http://www.animeigo.com/FAQ.t

Bandai Entertainment

Main Page:: http://www.bandai-ent.com/
Obtaining Permission:: Email requests to fansupport@bandai-ent.com

Bandai Visual

Main Page:: http://www.bandaivisual.us/
Obtaining Permission:: None posted

Broccoli International USA

Main Page:: http://www.bro-usa.com/
Obtaining Permission:: Non posted

Buena Vista (Studio Ghibli titles)

The folks at Team Ghiblink have infromation on how to make requests.
For more information see:: http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/disney/index.html#permission

Central Park Media (Anime 18, CPM, Software Sculptors, U.S. Manga Corps)

Main Page:: http://www.centralparkmedia.com/
Obtaining Permission, See their Anime University section:: http://www.centralparkmedia.com/animeu/

FUNimation

Main Page:: http://www.funimation.com/
Obtaining Permission, See their Operation Anime section:: http://www.operationanime.com/

Geneon:

Main Page:: http://www.geneonanimation.com/
Obtaining Permission:: See the FAQ link on their main page.

Kaiju (a division of Media Blasters)

Kitty (a division of Media Blasters)

Media Blasters (AnimeWorks, Kaiju, Kitty, Tokyo Shock)

Main Page:: http://www.media-blasters.com/
Obtaining Permission:: As they keep redesiging the page and breaking all links I am giving up for now on linking directly to any sub page on this site.

Manga Entertainment