Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1417834-20140313230324/@comment-34115-20140316033309

Ten Tailed Fox wrote:

Bad comparison. A book, you own the content to. This wiki, Wikia owns the content to. They've long ago made clear they don't care enough to enforce this. It'll take alot more than just us complaining to them to make them get that.

Wikia does not own the content, period. Every person who edits this wiki keeps the copyright (ownership) of everything they contribute to this wiki, with the agreement that it can be used under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license, which is the license that allows Wikia the permission to use this content, and allows other editors to modify and share that content, as long as they do it under that license.

If some of the editors here who wrote the actual article text that is copied without attribution were determined enough, they could talk to a lawyer and put together a DMCA takedown notice demanding that the copied content be taken down, and if Wikia refused to do it they would lose their safe harbour protection under the DMCA and the people who wrote the DMCA takedown notice would be able to sue Wikia in court. A case that Wikia would very likely lose.