Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25343999-20140824172915/@comment-220364-20140829015014

In general the images here are, or should be, sourced to the original source - the issue, box, episode, whatever. That is where the copyright more or less lies. There is an argument that can be made that anything that was not scanned by the uploader should also source the webpage where the "original" file was found, but that doesn't get pursued very hard.

As for the "secondary" DC wikis... I don't think any of them bother with image sourcing. They should, but they don't. And even if they did, using our method as the standard, they would only be pointing to the original source - in the case of IGAU that being the box(es), game play screen caps, and two comic book series. They wouldn't be pointing back to us as the place where the found the file.

Last thing. It's shaky at best to claim ownership of the files that isn't even truly derivative of someone else's IP. Scanning, color tweaking, and cropping really don't make it yours. There even less of an argument for it if you are cropping and color correcting an image file you found on another site.