general practice that I have seen is that it is fair use. though it might be pertinent to ask this question on a list with more people in that field, like computergamestudies@florismart.cddc.vt.edu, digiplay@topica.com, game-culture@yahoogroups.com are the three i read On Friday, November 9, 2001, at 08:44 PM, shawn miklaucic wrote:

AoIR folks:

Does anyone know what the procedure is for obtaining permission for using captured images from computer games in an academic article? Is it necessary? I have a few images, both captured from games and taken from the web, that are an integral part of an article I've written that is under review. Can these be considered "fair use"? Any help is much appreciated.

Best, Shawn

Shawn Miklaucic Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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