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"!