It's also worth bearing in mind that for practical purposes, the words 'fair use' only have any kind of magic in the United States. Although the Berne Convention does provide for the stipulations of the copyright law in which a film was originally registered applying to all signatory nations, the big studios get round this by registering films separately for copyright purposes in all the nations they operate in. So 'fair use' might allow you to (for example) capture a frame from a video and stick it in a Powerpoint slide which is then shown to a class of undergrads in New York, but if you then took that presentation to London and showed it, you'd probably be committing an offence. Leo Dr. Leo Enticknap Director, Northern Region Film and Television Archive School of Arts and Media University of Teesside Middlesbrough TS1 3BA United Kingdom Tel. +44-(0)1642 384022 Fax. +44-(0)1642 384099 Brainfryer: +44-(0)7710 417383 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html