Board Thread:Community Decisions/@comment-24510587-20191026212603/@comment-17114085-20191026220028

Well express permission isn't a requirement of fair use, it is a way to circumvent needing fair use protecting entirely by getting the original author's permisison.

I agree with a more lenient image policy for all the reasons Red mentioned above. I for one am only good at making flags and simple maps. Character art is something beyond my skills. So I commonly make use of stuff I find online for my characters.

In the other fan communities I'm a part of, which are also larger and more active than the 40k fanon wiki, they are very lenient with images and they've never had any legal problems nor problems with artists. In fact quite the opposite, maps and flags I've posted on there were used by other people like lore youtubers in their videos to illustrate the topics they were talking about.