Thread:Grémmian/@comment-20644-20140331011440/@comment-20644-20140331172352

No worries!

LurkSAR, to answer your question, let me first just clarify that the community here is not responsible for policing copyright. You are under no obligation to uphold our licensing policy or United States copyright law. That is our job at Wikia, but even then our role is limited. We do not actively police image copyrights. Rather, if a rights holder finds that their intellectual property is being infringed upon, they can send us a takedown notice in accordance with the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). We are then required to respond.

So all of that is between Wikia and individual rights holders, and individual communities are not required to act on copyright issues. If you want to set up some sort of image policy, then you could do what other big communities have done and require that all image pages list the source, artist, and license of the image. Those aren't really a factor in copyright disputes, but it can help with your encyclopedic presentation. After all, encyclopedias list sources right? I know having an encyclopedic presentation has been important to MicroWiki in the past, so this may be the right kind of image policy for you.

Regardless of what policy you make, just remember: MicroWiki is not responsible for any copyright disputes its users get into. If the use of an image on MicroWiki is disputed, then that is solely between Wikia, the rights holder, and the user who uploaded the image.

Hopefully that clears things up. Let me know if you still have any questions!