Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20180618163709/@comment-1940096-20180623174742

Dantman wrote: SeaTerror wrote: I know I don't edit much here but that wouldn't be copyright violation under Fair Use which Wikia is under due to being an American company.

Fair use doesn't allow you do do whatever you want, there are specific conditions that something needs to meet in order to quality as fair use. Copying prose from databooks does not quality as fair use.

"Fair use is a legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use. Section 107 calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use"