“Fair use” has been asserted by academics as a necessary component of film analysis, but this has been tolerated by copyright holders, not enshrined as a right under law (and certainly not when admission is charged at the box office). The problem with Godard is that he uses clips from mainstream productions still jealously guarded by today’s conglomerates. God forbid that his use of a minute or two from THE BIRDS deprives Universal of the few centimes profit that any showing of MOMENTS CHOISIS would likely generate!