Board Thread:For Our Admins/@comment-24199126-20141001012639/@comment-24199126-20141004000639

@Bella: Yeah this was a long time in coming. Hopefully it'll make the whole Wiki experience better for everyone :).

@Humphry: The gallery decision is far from finalized and so we haven't gone around deleting all the images on the Wiki. The only images I've started to remove are the ones on the unused files page since they don't appear anywhere and are just taking up space ^^. I think the gallery discussion is rather specific so we should have a separate discussion on that. This thread is more about general site policy outlined in the MoS.

Unfortunately with regards to copyright laws it really is just about how one feels...and usually it's with regards to the party that makes the claim. In recent years, "fair use" has been able to help settle copyright claims in favor of the accused but it differs on a case-by-case basis. As it is, if Disney wanted to, they could argue their copyright has been violated with regards to my work on the Wiki brackground in which case I could: 1) Take the picture down to avoid legal action or 2) Argue fair use...and then head to court against a multi-million dollar company. With that in mind, despite the success of fair use, copyright disputes usually end up with the claimant victorious :/

But luckily, with Photobucket being an option for linking pictures I see no reason why we can't have manipulated images whilst technically not uploading them to the Wiki to invite copyright issues :). Everyone wins!