Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-26339491-20191203204132/@comment-3474542-20200310070252

It certainly makes it difficult to determine what the licensing status of an image is or who to credit for an image. Just because an image is uploaded by a particular user, does not mean that they own the copyright for that image (if we that was the case, most wikis would be without any images whatsoever). Just because an image is on a wiki does not mean that the image has had it's rights released.

For example --

An article about wookies may include an image of Chewbacca. However, Disney currently owns the rights to the character. And, without getting additional permission from them, it can only be used under the fair use doctrine... not the more lenient copyleft agreements common among the various wiki platforms.