Forum:Image Licensing

I have noticed that many of our images do not have licenses and sources. This is a problem, considering that SOPA is on the loose and a certain site have been shut down due to copyright infringement. My point is, without proper copyright licensing and source, we are basically taking images without properly crediting them to the originator. Therefore, I propose everyone to help out in updating these unlicensed images by giving them the licensing templates that fit the best, and give the source to ones that need them so we can credit which chapter/episode/company/etc. that provided them. That being said, I like to remind everyone NOT to upload any images with scanlation/fansub on them. 07:37, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

Discussion
Wikipedia deletes images without licensing established, don't want to go to that lengths, but has anyone done a clean out of unused images recently? Thats usually the best start to cleaning up mages on the wikia. As for the ones without a license, I wish I could pitchin to help but I don't have that sort of time anymore. However, Its usually best to have 3 or 4 editors on this sort of task and assign them jobs.

Other then that a automated bot can sometimes help either warn users when theyupload a image without the licensing or put a standard license up. :-/ One-Winged Hawk 10:10, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

I don't want to be cynical noob here, but isn't the wikia directly linked to Wikipedia, so if they take down Wikipedia will wikia be taken down as well? And if Wikia is taken down will we be taken down to?

Wikia and Wikipedia are 2 seperate entities. Is there a category for unlicensed images? Seems like most of these. http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Special:UnusedFiles Can be deleted though. 14:15, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

Looks like I should click the provided links before talking...Anyways I'm gonna try and get on that later tonight. 14:17, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

My question remains though, if wikia is taken down as a whole then we will be taken down with it right?

If wikia is taken down yes. We are unaffected by wikipedia policy though. 14:25, January 25, 2012 (UTC)

There is no use overthinking, the problem is that even if we claim to use an image under "fair use" that could be not necessarily the case. From bad to worse, with SOPA and PIPA even if we legitimately claim fair use, third parties can demand the deletion of an image without a reason (first we have to delete it, then we can ask a neutral party to evaluate if the demand was legitimate). Let's just keep the images in order.

Even if we won't be affected, there's no point in not providing sources and licences. 18:08, January 25, 2012 (UTC)