Forum:License options for photomanipulations

Hello there, folks. I've done some searching and haven't found an answer for this, so I've come seeking your advice. Given that we're being asked for licensing information for new image uploads, I was wondering how to handle photomanipulations or composite images? It's something common in many fandom-oriented wikis, like Star Trek Expanded Universe, or SW Fanon. How does one attribute that? Is it covered under the template? Or should there be a new option saying something like "this image has been compiled by  from two or more images under copyright to multiple sources."? Photomanipulations, in a legal sense, are generally considered parodies. --TimPendragon 09:05, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm an administrator of Star Wars Fanon, so I can only speak for that wiki. On Star Wars Fanon, we prefer the "this image has been compiled by  from two or more images under copyright to multiple sources" option that you've stated. We would also like you to state what those "multiple sources" are. In addition, the SW Fanon community wouldn't want their images to be called "parodies" as SW Fanon has been trying to build a more serious outlook for fanon wikis for a while now. What other wikis do is up to them, and I hope Wikia respects our desires to create our own policies concerning images; nearly two years of work keeping images sourced and licensed on SW Fanon would be overridden if Wikia states otherwise. --Michaeldsuarez (Talk) (Deeds) 13:03, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the heads up, Michael. When I said "in a legal sense, they're considered parodies," I meant just that, not as any kind of slight. An image of Pierce Brosnan as a Starfleet Captain, or Jason Statham as a Jedi Knight is of course taken seriously by those creating the images, and reading the associated stories or RPGs. But photomanips of this nature are basically in the same gray area of legality as fanfic - applying the blanket term "parody image" to all photomanipulations avoids those legal considerations. Believe me, STEU takes itself just as seriously as SW fanon, perhaps even more so now that we have Memory Gamma to contend with. --TimPendragon 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Licences boxes can be added as desired by any sysop by editing MediaWiki:Licenses. You can see a few exemples there : c:fr.3d:MediaWiki:Licenses, c:fr.guildwars:MediaWiki:Licenses. — TulipVorlax 20:07, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tulip. I'll work with STEU's other sysops and set it up. --TimPendragon 20:37, 8 February 2009 (UTC)