Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-848088-20130816070922/@comment-11733175-20130816110428

I'm guessing you're referring to the images Semanticdrifter deleted.

I'd contact him to find out the details of the DMCA notice, why they felt their copyright was being breached and how to avoid it in the future. I can't see the images, and I don't know the circumstances of their release, but they may have been violating a copyright you hadn't noticed.

As far as I can tell this is Activision's legal terms and conditions. As I would expect, they have the rights to every part of their product which includes images of said product. Most wikis use similar images under fair use although the quantity of those images is very likely to surpass the limit set by fair use.

For example, RuneScape Wiki has thousands of images taken from the RuneScape game all licensed under fair use. If Jagex, the games creators decided that we were infringing on their copyright, we would have little choice but to remove most if not all the images. The sheer amount of them is far beyond what fair use allows. The images on the wiki exist out of Jagex's benevolence. It suits them to have fansites about their game which could potentially increase traffic for their site in turn.

Activision may view things differently, I don't know. Regardless, I'd recommend sending an email to Wikia through Special:Contact/general asking for clarification on this, or replying to an existing email if Wikia have already sent one to you notifying you of the DMCA notice.