There are two conventions...one, which the United States is signatory to, is
the Geneva Copyright convention, and includes most of the rest of the world.
There's another one which I can't quite recall (Pan-American?) and it
occasionally happens that a copyright under one is ignored by entities
controlled by the other.

UNESO apparently adminstrates the Geneva convention (and why this is a
surprise, I can't say) but there's an Acrobat document which goes into some
detail....

http://www.unesco.org/culture/copyri...ng/ucc52ms.pdf

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"Steven J Sobol" wrote in message
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Bill Blomgren wrote:
On 5 May 2004 23:00:49 GMT, (G) wrote:

My, my. Sounds like a big risk for a non-profit, cultural
project. Although, not living in the States, I might be partially
spared from this type of danger (?)

True.. all depends on local regulations. Copyright varies to some extent from
country to country, but the EU should be reasonably uniform.

One thing I haven't heard mentioned yet is the international treaty whose
name I can't remember that says that a bunch of countries including the US
and several members of the European Union will honor each others' copyrights.

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