On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 08:55:38AM -0800, Michael Snow wrote:
No you can't. The Polish law is specificaly about text and I don't have any reason to believe it's any different in other countries.
I'll take your word for what Polish law says. But Poland is also a signatory to the Berne Convention. If we can get WIPO or WTO to determine that the Berne Convention is about more than just text, then they have to abide by that.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
quotation n 1: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: {citation}, {acknowledgment}, {credit}, {reference}, {mention}] 2: a passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn: {quote}, {citation}] 3: a statement of the current market price of a security or commodity 4: the practice of quoting from books or plays etc.; "since he lacks originality he must rely on quotation"
I don't have any reasons to believe that Berne Convention meant "quotation" in any wider meaning.
And it's more likely that we'll see peace in the Middle East, than WTO/WIPO limiting scope of the copyright.