On 2/26/07, teun spaans <teun.spaans(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Gregory,
You write: "Under the "fair dealing" (or in the US "fair use")
laws of most
countries we
can use works even with the explicit disapproval of the copyright holder"
And "the lawmakers or courts of most countries have realized "
I don't believe your conclusion is correct. Fair use exists in the US,
Canada and probably a bunch of (ex) UK countries. Other countries indeed
have something related, but usually the rules are much, much stricter than
what US courts allow.
Fair dealing is far stricter than US law. Do not lumb to two together
(fair dealing probably covers around 25% of the planet mind).
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geni