Board Thread:New Features/@comment-13918697-20140924084804/@comment-20644-20141001031708

To offer a quick staff response: no, you are not required to give credit to screenshots you take from another wikia. Screenshots are not original works, and, as already acknowledged in this conversation, the person who took the screenshot doesn't have a legal claim to it.

Additionally, the aforementioned interpretation that the Community Guidelines state that you must give credit to reused images is not correct. You are required to attribute Creative Commons text and Creative Commons images. You are not required to attribute images unless the copyright status of those images require it. After all, the Community Guidelines say "it's always polite to give the proper attribution." It does not say you are required to do so, the exception being that if the copyright status requires it. Screenshots used under the pretense of fair use do not require it, even if those screenshots were reused from another wikia.

Is crediting the polite thing to do? Yes. Are we going to require it, though? No, we are not. It is not a Wikia requirement.