Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150130025949/@comment-25356303-20150201182347

SuperSajuuk wrote: AIdmeri wrote: If that's the case then we should be allowed to use images from UESP. Their members didn't create the game either, just took screenshots. It's all being used under fair use, so why the restriction on the use of their images? Technically, their content is licensed under the exact same copyleft license this wiki uses, so there's nothing stopping anyone from reusing their content with attribution. However, it wouldn't be much of a wiki if it was just based on copied content.

I have never understood the whole "don't use UESP content here" since they are using fair use licensed images and all textual content is licensed for reuse anywhere, as long as it's attributed. The wiki was basically forced into adopting a policy that disallows anyone using things from UESP and frankly, the policy on image reuse should be taken down because it's not even valid as none of the images on UESP are copyrighted to them. So yeah, there's nothing really wrong with it anyway.

Are you kidding me, Sajuuk? You want us to steal from other websites? Yeah, fine, it's technically legal, but what the hell does doing that make us? Do we have no chivalry? You said it yourself; "It wouldn't be much of a wiki if it was just based on copied content".

We are better than this. We did not make those images, we did not write those articles. They are not ours, no matter how much you want to believe that they are. If we start doing this, our reputation as a wiki will become even worse than it already is. And I certainly do not want to screw up our relations with UESP.