Thread:Janus100/@comment-28398720-20160726205730/@comment-28398720-20160728083405


 * "My imperfect process: Add official videos and links while they exist. Later, if a video gets taken down, remove it from articles and mark the file for deletion."

The problem is that we have no way of knowing when videos gets taken down, which is why we have so much video clutter, because it is not feasible for us to keep rechecking those videos constantly. I did saw a solution on fallout wiki, where they created their own youtube channel and asked for permission from the copyright holder to upload\use some content, I guess they figured free promotion why not.

As for images, I am only vaguely familiar/understand fairuse policy and the principles behind it. But it worth noting that (a) our use of covers and actor images use is pretty much inline with wikipidea interpretation of fair us. (b) Our scope widely differ from that of wikipidea, by providing scene by scene commentary we have far more latitude in the use of screencaps. (c) I know that on GameOfTrones wikia we could use any offical images released on HBO site with permission, in a mutual beneficial agreement sort of way. So fair use is not all.

Now transcripts, it never occurred to me that this could be an issue. I used to have a lyric note book where I wrote down what I heard on radio\tv. I guess I see transcripts in the same way, plus we use them as a source of reference.

Anyway, this hot potato is way above my "pay grade", i'll leave it for you the veterans to fuss over ;)