  We consider various modifications of the Weyl-Moyal star-product, in order to
obtain a finite range of nonlocality. The basic requirements are to preserve
the commutation relations of the coordinates as well as the associativity of
the new product. We show that a modification of the differential representation
of the Weyl-Moyal star-product by an exponential function of derivatives will
not lead to a finite range of nonlocality. We also modify the integral kernel
of the star-product introducing a Gaussian damping, but find a nonassociative
product which remains infinitely nonlocal. We are therefore led to propose that
the Weyl-Moyal product should be modified by a cutoff like function, in order
to remove the infinite nonlocality of the product. We provide such a product,
but it appears that one has to abandon the possibility of analytic calculation
with the new product.
