Board Thread:New Features/@comment-5275700-20161109233932/@comment-1738746-20161112015027

Tupka217 wrote: They won't get sued. They'll get either a notice or a DMCA, if at all.

The Wiki-visualisation-main images appear as unused on the wiki, but are used in the See Also/Read More/ Whatever it is called. After you deleted it, the bot added it back because you broke it. As Fortress mentions above me, the bot didn't add it back because it was broken, this was a site-wide change. And to further clarify the point that no local admin uploaded the unlawful image, these are the logs. After I deleted it, I also changed the mobile page to show an image from our wiki, so the bot doesn't try to re-upload something random again. Again, I don't know if WikiaBot uploaded the same image as FandomBot, it was 2 years ago, but WikiaBot says the image was "auto-generated"- this is where I drew the assumption that the image was pulled at random by a bot from the internet rather than a human being picking it.

Either way, that's all semantics. The issue here in the case of my wiki was that an image was used unlawfully to misrepresent our community, and despite alerting staff to this via contact, no one was bothered by it at all. As previously suggested, if staff were better trained with regards to copyright violations, they might take my suggestion of using a placeholder image more seriously. As a professional artist myself, I've just found the treatment to be degrading overall.