Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1417834-20140208191645/@comment-413936-20140301081803

Hey again, thought I'd pop over (as I mentioned on the Community thread, I've had to deal with a number of copyright issues myself).

From what I've heard from speaking with other admins, licensing is very much a "results may vary" situation. Which indeed can be an annoying situation, to say the least…

IMO, the whole problem is CC-BY-SA. It's not as all-encompassing as a full and proper copyright, especially since it's technically all Wikia (meaning there's a link to the license on every page, techniaclly). So instead of sending in a complaint of a copyright violation, we'd have to contact an admin there to request attribution. It's also an insult to wikis considering how many just go about and take all of their articles from other wikis.

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.

However… there's one possibility y'all might could still try… That wiki includes pages from a number of series owned by various companies. One of them is Disney, which is known for being very strict about copyright. One possibility is contacting them regarding the use of their material (including video) as they might decide to order a take-down notice. But it may be a long shot, honestly…