Board Thread:Policies/@comment-1038387-20140114152304

Since we're in the process of revitalizing some policies, here's another that's been a pain in the butt for me: staff images and galleries. I'll start with the latter.


 * 1) There's /Art and there's /Gallery. A lot of them come from the early days (pre-2009), and I've had to clean up a lot of bad images, bad links, and useless stuff. Most of it is obsoleted by the /Penciler Images and /Cover Artist Images categories anyway. Remove all art from the galleries?
 * Instead, we could rework them into galleries of real pics and images that feature on-panel appearances in comics.


 * 1) And now the biggest one... real images. We've had issues with Luigi Novi and Janelle Asselin in the past about images, and we haven't got any fair use to cite here. Real world images are quite often (c), and have conditions limiting the use outside their original location. Wikia receives about 10-15 DMCA notices per month, and they're predominantly about real world images. Our images are for the most part copied from other sites, such as wikipedia or comicvine, without mentioning a source.
 * While in all cases the IP has to be defended by the owner, that doesn't mean "do what you want until you get caught" for wikis. We have to take care of this so that we can at least defend outselves if challenged.
 * The best way would be to use only:
 * promotional images from DC's website, or other images clearly marked as promotional
 * images that have appeared in DC Comics (columns and letter sections, but also specials like Fifty Who Made DC Great)
 * images that are in the PD
 * images that users have taken and submitted themselves

I don't know if anyone wants to take it seriously, but we should. We can't just copy stuff willy-nilly from other sites. 