Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-28639118-20160118133929/@comment-5204503-20160119124316

Yo, dudes. Guy who knows about copyright stuff here. Also known as Guy who makes South Park art and Guy who likes GW2 Rose, but mostly known as Lolwutburger.

Anyschnitz, technically, we can use copyrighted materials such as comics and stuff when we follow Fair Use. It can be used for commentary, parody, education, and stuff like that.

Since our wiki is like, meant for research and stuff, we can most likely put in the comics.

BUT

We should just, like, put in just the important pages or panels, to simply illustrate the details in the plot. Like, we put in a picture of say... Zomboss taking over Suburbia but we don't put in a picture of Crazy Dave spanking a literal monkey because that has absolutely no plot relevance unless stated otherwise. We should only show the monkey-spanking Dave if it's relevant to the story, like if Dave spanks said monkey to stop Zomboss from getting brains, but if said monkey is only being spanked for the sake of a joke, we don't put it in the page. In short, we only put in important panels, but not the ones with spoilers unless we put in some sort of show spoiler button for a picture or something. Like, we put in a gallery that says "THIS GALLERY SHOWS SPOILERS, DUDEBRO! LIKE, DON'T CLICK THAT NICE JUICY SHOW BUTTON IF YOU DON'T LIKE SPOILERS, DAWG!" like they sometimes do in the CWCki and other wikis.

Let's go back to fair use. You can put in the full work if it's not intended to pirate or impede sales. That means you can put in pages and stuff from the book IF you clearly state "We're putting this here for educational purposes. Nya-nya-nanya-nya! You can't sue us, suckers!" because by stating that there, we're protected by fair use because we're using it fairly! Copyright holders can't force us to take down files if it is considered as fair use.

To put it simple, Fair Use is the idea that it's okay for us to use PopCap's work without breaking the law. Since PvZ is popular, we like to talk about it, and this wiki was made specifically to educate people about the game. This means we'll obviously have to put information from the comics, such as pictures and stuff. The idea of Fair Use was made so that people like us could put content without being sued.

Heheheheh, I'm smart.