>'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, Actually it's the other way around: In another signatory nation a film (or other work) gets the protection of that particular nation *not* the origin nation. So a French film in the US gets the protection of US copyright law and a US film in France gets French protection. See Article 5(1) of the Berne Convention. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]