On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:49:05PM -0800, Michael Snow
wrote:
May I suggest that we ask ourselves a different
kind of question. All
the countries in question are parties to the Berne Convention for the
Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, including the US. It has much
wider acceptance, and only a few countries have not signed on. No issues
with a US-centric fair use doctrine.
Article 10 of the Berne Convention states, "It shall be permissible to
make quotations from a work which has already been lawfully made
available to the public, provided that their making is compatible with
fair practice, and their extent does not exceed that justified by the
purpose...." This can be a basis for any of us, even outside the US, to
quote text when necessary. Perhaps we could also consider images in this
context.
[...]
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.
--Michael Snow