Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
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.
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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
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.
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