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.