Thread:Soldierscuzzy/@comment-5492377-20120327071105/@comment-8-20120327170339

Hi, Soldierscuzzy asked me to chime in here :)

It's very unlikely that CBS will get litigious. Most companies really value their fans, and love that you make fan sites like this one. We've often worked with companies for promotions of games and so on, and they are very aware that people on the site are using images in this way.

And if they do have a problem with an image, you as an admin are not responsible for what other people have uploaded. What will happen is that they will send us a DMCA takedown notice, we will remove the image, and it's done. If someone keeps uploading an image that has had a takedown request, then they might get a warning and ultimately be banned (but that actually hasn't happened on Wikia so far!)

In my experience, the images most likely to get takedown notices are anything that's leaked ahead of official releases, and stock images that are not related to the wiki's topic (there is no fair use rationale for these, and using them without paying license fees is obviously something the photographers won't be happy with!)

You, individually, are only responsible for the images you upload. If you are worried about the risks to you of uploading an image, then don't upload it :) But you don't need to worry about those 3000+ images.