Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1417834-20140208191645/@comment-1417834-20140301185902

Lhikan634 wrote: Honestly, I do find it a bit odd that staff messaged the user in question instead of waiting the standard amount of time before a forced removal of the pages in question. I've never seen that in other licensing issues.

I had a similar issue with another wiki myself. Both I and admins from other wikis whose content was used sans-attribution spoke previously and all left messages requesting attribution. After the specified time frame, one of us contacted staff on behalf of the group with links of copied articles and the source, sorted by wiki. Staff then took pretty immediate action.

Strange, I've never had them take that approach unless the wiki was inactive.

From what I read in the FAQ on CC-BY-SA, an initial violation of the cc-by-sa 3.0 license revokes the persons right to use it unless they get express permission from the license holder. http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_can_I_lose_my_rights_under_a_Creative_Commons_license.3F_If_that_happens.2C_how_do_I_get_them_back.3F

I know this community didn't have any discussion regarding giving express permission back to that wiki to use our content...

Also I have gone through many of the examples of attribution on the creative commons site and have never seen any example that would point to a single link to a non-dedicated attribution page being valid, and all the examples keep the attribution together in one place.

The only reference I can find own my own to what wikia is stating is in the FAQ "Additionally, you may satisfy the attribution requirement by providing a link to a place where the attribution information may be found", but that obviously doesn't remove the requirements of prominence and clear labeling.

I think contacting Disney itself is a bit over the top, and would be an absolute last resort.