Thread:Janus100/@comment-28398720-20160726205730/@comment-27794543-20160824112311

So your arguing that "The CW may request..." implies the CW previously granted permission, but the statement "may not be reproduced commercially without permission from The CW" doesn't imply permission?
 * Your statement practically says: Since Wikia is a commercial organization and we're posting their copyrighted material with the statement that commercial use isn't allowed without permission, it means we have permission. If you want to post it too, then you must also gain permission.
 * On the other hand, nowhere in "The CW may request..." does it say anything regarding permission or agreement with the CW. It merely states that we will remove if asked (which we should). The fact we're explicitly stating that we will obey requests for removal does not state a previous agreement.

Your "secondhand experience" is every sentence on this wikia minus the dialogue taken from the series. I don't understand why we need a special disclaimer for "secondhand experience" on transcripts but not on any other pages on this wikia. If we need an extra disclaimer for anything, it's when content is copyrighted. That's why images need to have fair use statement. And that is why transcripts need disclaimers (and since fair use doesn't apply, we need a different disclaimer).

Fair use is very complicated. Wikia avoids lawsuits by taking down all info when copyright owners when requested. Also, as stated above, companies have better things to do than sue fansites. Again, getting away with using copyrighted material isn't the same thing as fair use.

If you think the transcripts are fair use, I'd love to hear your reasoning. Again, the dialogue is copyrighted, posting all the dialogue from an episode is not minimizing use of the copyrighted material, and describing scenes is not transformative. Additionally, only about 0%-5% of info on transcript pages is our own material – meaning we're nowhere close to claiming that the majority is our own.