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