Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1038387-20131226232148/@comment-1038387-20131228165708

CzechOut wrote: But that's not to say that the model is "do what you want until you get caught". Wikia have a duty to advise caution, and we as users have cause to heed that advice. The more we can do as admin to show that we care about protecting our topic's rights holders, the better.

On individual wikis, that makes sense - if you host entire episodes or movies, that's a violation. It also stabs the franchise you're admiring in the back as it takes away potential DVD sales. But images, even more images than reasonable for a strict interpretation, is a gray area. Is there a history of DCMAs to Wikia? Maybe there's a pattern as to when the owners object - thoguh I reckon it's rare.

But the avatar is done by central Wikia - and individual Wikia admins can't do anything against it and really shouldn't have to either.