Board Thread:Community Decisions/@comment-24510587-20191026212603/@comment-24909831-20191026225632

I'm not having any kind of conversation about this matter. This image policy we currently have was recommended to us by an administrator of the Star Wars Fanon (which is btw a lot larger community than ours or Halo Fanon) as it follows the the general Terms of Use of Fandom itself. I think it is pretty obvious we can not overrule with our policies or rules anything laid down in the Fandom's Terms of Use which we are all agreed to follow. Halo Fanon's image rulings are also at fault in that they claim screenshots to be of public domain, while they are in fact copyrighted property of the company who has made that game of which the screenshot was taken.

Using art for your own purposes without an explicit permission of the author is stealing. Just because you don't get caught does not mean you are allowed to do it. Fair use does not give you right to use any work of art for anything but to criticise it or to parody it. Do you claim you are using those files you are using on this site to parody them? You say stealing is okay, because you don't want to bother with asking. You say it is difficult to draw, so you should be allowed to steal drawings. Are you really so impudent you can't hear the outrageousness of your words in this matter?

If Fandom staff comes here to tell me that stealing any artist's work from anywhere and using it on Fandom's sites is okay and totally tolerable, I will mend our image policy. Though I'm open to ideas to streamline the uploading process for I think it is a bit heavy.