Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150130025949/@comment-1251315-20150201193516

My point is though: the images on UESP are indeed copyrighted. But what many people are mistaken about with copyright is that the copyright of the images on UESP does NOT belong to UESP.

All images on UESP (excepting those created by users that don't include anything from Bethesda's games) are copyrighted works of Bethesda Softworks: it's their copyright, so if anything, taking an image from UESP and uploading it here doesn't violate any of UESP's copyright because it's not even their image (UESP were obviously not involved in any making of Bethesda games :P) to place restrictions on in the first place.

Using that image you linked for Ash Hopper Meat, it's an image of something that came from Bethesda's games but was composed in a program like Inkscape directly by a user. The copyright still belongs to Bethesda because it's Bethesda's IP. So yeah, any user can take an image from UESP and use it, since UESP has no legal right to create policies about images that they didn't create themselves.