Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1038387-20131226232148

I've had this discussion a while back: is using a non-free image as the central Wikia avatar defensible with fair use?

On one of my wikis, we don't allow images on user pages, altered or not, and it doesn't matter if it's a reused image - none of it is fair use, in the strictest sense. Also, we didn't want to turn userpages into facebook profiles.

When I explained it to someone who was using an image, he called me out on my avatar - and I actually think he was correct (though I'm still using it). Whose responsibility are the avatars? And are there actually rules on them? 