Thread:Janus100/@comment-28398720-20160726205730/@comment-27794543-20160729101052


 * "Are you volunteering ;p I can help mark few of the current ones, but I can't commit long term to that."

The good & bad thing about wikia is that there is no long term. Users appear & disappear without notice. Do I plan to be around next month? Sure. But do I promise? Nope. Also, for this to be efficient, admins have to delete items in Category:Candidates for deletion.


 * "still it is a far cry from what you are describing."

My statement was not directed toward your specific example, but toward how most wikias use "fair use". When you have permission from the copyright owner, that is completely different. Fair use comes into play when you use copyrighted work without permission.


 * promotional materials

Promotional material, i.e. videos and photos released directly by the company for promotional purposes, is different. However most images on this site are not promotional material, instead being screenshots. I'm not sure of the laws regarding promotional material. That is, just because a company releases images for promotion, does that mean anyone & everyone can use the images? Or do websites have to have an agreement with the copyright holders to repost the promotional images? (BTW, Wikia is a for-profit company, making money by running ads on all these pages. Since these pages use copyrighted images to attract viewers, Wikia is not far from the t-shirt seller.)