[WikiEN-l] Re: [HelpDesk-l] permission

[Alphax]

Jorge Oliva wrote to helpdesk-l:
> To whom it may concern:
>  
> I am a student at Westwood College in Los Angeles trying to get a
> bachelor degree in Video Game Art and Design. We were told to do a
> poster in one of our favorite video games. I chose to do it in the
> diffrence between StreetFighter, and I would like to ask for permision
> to borrow some of the pictures that are in your website.  This poster
> would be only used for educational purposes.
>  

This is where allowing "Fair use" images is getting us... what do I tell
them? "Sorry, that's actually a copyright infringment which we can use
via a legal loophole, but nobody else is allowed to"?

I thought the idea was to allow "maximal reuse" and "free content", not
"copyright situations so complicated that nobody can understand them"!

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