Studio Ghibli Releases More Free-to-Use Artwork
This past week, Studio Ghibli released four pieces of artwork from Castle in the Sky on their Twitter account for fans to use freely. This is the second time recently that the production company has released artwork for fans to use via its social media account. Both times the artwork has been released with the disclaimer that while fans can use it freely for their own use, they should not use it for anything inappropriate.
Castle in the Sky is one of Studio Ghibli's older, but still beloved movies. It originally was released in 1986, and has been cited as highly influential for modern Japanese storytelling and anime. It also had a huge impact on the steampunk and dieselpunk genres even outside of Japan.
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The images were released in a set of four, and can be used without risk of copyright infringement by anyone who wishes to use them. They all feature one of the movie's main characters. The first is Muska, reading すばらし (subarashi), or «wonderful.» Then there is Pazu reading またね (matane), or «see you later» and Sheeta with simply «OK,» a phrase used in both Japanese and English. Finally, there is Uncle Pomme reading ほう (hou), like a sigh.
A few weeks prior, Studio Ghibli posted an image of Calcifer from Howl's Moving Castle holding a blank sign board with a similar message that it could be used by fans for anything (as long as it was not inappropriate). Many fans responded by tweeting the image back to the studio with «thank you» or something similar on Calcifer's sign. Both the Howl's Moving Castle image and these latest ones from Castle in the Sky are likely meant to be used on social media.
In a world where it can be easy to be called out for copyright
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