Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151226234449/@comment-26402117-20151227234423

There is the issue of a user filing a counter-notice in a American civil court (which is possible even if you do not use DMCA) because of the allegation of copyright infringement - which would result in harm and wasted time for the Wikia legal team and the restoration of the content if the user can prove that it's fairuse, the work is original or there is evidence to disprove a violation or monetary losses.

As we have agreed from before @452, the community team are not lawyers - they provide support to the community. So them making decisions on infringement is not conducive to a better domain. Local mods can act to deal with infringement pre-emptively and police the Terms of Use - but Wikia staff doing so leads to that issue of repercussions from litigating contributors who are on the target end of the barrel.