Thread:Janus100/@comment-28398720-20160726205730/@comment-27794543-20160728100441

There is no automatic way to remove broken videos, but there is no automatic ways for many tasks on wikis. Right now there is clogging since noone has bothered to go through them (also requires admins deleting files marked for deletion). If someone went through it once a month, it's not a huge issue.

There are currently 103 videos on this wikia. Just open the pop-up preview (instead of going to file's page). Don't bother clicking on video to load, just see if video gives grey screen (with rectangle bubble with three dots) – if so, video is broken. Cycle through a page (took me 53 seconds), find all the broken videos on that page (there is 5 pages, <5 minutes to find all the broken videos). Mark each for deletion and remove from existing pages. Entire task will take no more than two hours, if that. It's pretty simple. If someone bothered to do this once a month, then it'd take less than 1/2 hour.

(a) As for actor images, wikia completely & utterly fails compared to wikipedia. Wikia users often take random pictures from the web, without a single thought of copyright, and post them here. "Free use" doesn't cover photos of real people. Most photos of celebrities are not in the public domain or CC, yet wikia users treat them as such. If the image came from wikipedia, it's safe to use, but we have plenty of copyrighted images of actors on this wikia. Just because an image is online, doesn't make it free. Just because an actor posted their image on twitter or instagram, it's not free. It's still copyright infringement to use these images, unless the person who owns the image explicitly allowed the use or released it into public domain.

(b) While the scope differs from wikipedia, fair use laws still apply. That means using the lowest resolution possible and the fewest copyrighted images possible. Given this wikia uses galleries for the sake of galleries (and not to have image show a specific scene), it's not even trying to follow fair use. Wikia just gives lip service by putting a "free use" banner (which many of the image files on this wikia are missing, so not doing a good job at this). Also note that Wikia's help page, Help:Image copyright tags, points to Wikipedia's policy.

(c) Of course they don't care. All TV shows know fansites (which wikia is a fansite) are great for free publicity and suing fansites is bad for business. Unless a fansite tries to do something really obnoxious, e.g. upload the actual episodes, TV shows aren't going to bother with takedown notices. It doesn't make it "fair use", it makes it 'unless the company gets annoyed at you, they aren't going to sue you'-use.

Music lyrics are copyrighted. Thus not allowed on Wikipedia or any other sites that follow copyright laws. Some lyric databases pay licenses fees. Others operate outside the law. There is also a big difference between publishing thousands of lyrics online vs. writing them in your notebook.

Honestly, none of this matters, since the CW isn't planning to sue this wikia.

However, people should be more aware of laws regarding online posting. There has been cases of bloggers sued for posing an image they found online. And it's not enough to take down the image, copyright owners have demanded payments for use of their images. Then add the lawyer fees and one random image found online gets expensive fast.