Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150130025949/@comment-4984687-20150204065948

Bluesonic1 wrote: NOTATHALMORSPY wrote: Flightmare wrote: One thing that UESP and the YouTube channel have in common is suboptimal image quality. UESP very often uses automated colour corrections which make look images more clear, but less natural. The videos on YouTube aren't lossless either, the compressions on YouTube make quality go lost forever and most often this results in a blurred image. While both can be used on this site, in absolute lack of better alternatives, it's still not the final goal we have in mind. But these images can always be replaced by superior images at a later stage. So we can use images from UESP? I did once, and it was deleted and replaced with another one, but I didn't get any message about it saying I wasn't supposed to. I'd probably say not, because of the flame wars the subject seems to bring up. If it's an image that by going to the source ourselves, we end up getting the exact same image e.g. a Promo image, then they can't really get mad at us nor could they prove that we took it from their site. But screenshots are very easy to tell that it's been taken from their site... and honestly, it's easy enough to replicate a similar image ourselves to the point that it's not really worth the trouble of taking their screenshots in the first place.

I addressed this earlier in the thread. For images from any game between Arena and Redguard, the image will always look relatively the same from no matter what angle you take it at. They give these images the regular Bethesda liscense and can be used by anyone while UESP doesn't need to get credit for it.

Anything from Morrowind to Online however brings in depth. They often put the UESP copyright tag on it since it would be extremely hard to replicate it. They allow anyone to use the photos with this liscense; the only thing they ask for in return is credit for the photo.

It's ok to use images mentioned in the first paragraph since if you took a picture of the thing by yourself it would look the exact same as UESP's. It's not ok to use images mentioned in the second paragraph due to their higher depth and unique angles, they'd be impossible to replicate so it's suggested to take screenshots yourself.