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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Caerin" data-source="post: 4746948" data-attributes="member: 3991">I'm not certain that's what people were saying. The way that Berne, and just about every other copyright treaty works, is that they provide guidelines that need to be enacted domestically. Generally, these guidelines offer guaranteed minimums of protection. Part of the convention is reciprocal- like the example you quoted, any potentially infringing action is under the jurisdiction of the member country. In France, US works are protected just as French works are protected. In Poland, US works are protected just as Polish works are protected. This also applies to legal limitations- for example, libraries can lend British works under the US doctrine of first sale in the US, even though British libraries follow different law in the UK and must take additional steps to lend books.So, in Poland, *if* his initial action was legal under a Polish private use exemption, then it was legal. The problem then comes with the additional distribution on the Internet. Not only is that very likely illegal under Polish law, it means the action *also* took place in the US jurisdiction, making it actionable in the US. This is a bit of an oversimplification, but it means that the person infringing is also liable in the US as well.</blockquote>