Forum:Possible copyright issue

A wiki I have recently adopted has been using certain icons (you can see them at the main page: w:c:allods:Allods Wiki) that turned out to be Guild Wars images (looks like they were added because of lack of local ones). The person that modified and implemented them has used "Other free" licensing, as seen.

Someone has posted the following on main Talk:Allods Wiki:


 * ''Good job stealing our icons. You've almost got the whole lot, Warrior, Monk, Elementalist, Ranger, Necromancer, Mesmer and the Assassin. How about you take them down because as it stands, this is copyright infringement (your game doesn't use these icons; Guild Wars does).

So is it really a copyright infringement? Should I remove the icons? Or can it still be considered to be fair use? -- IcecreamKitten 14:05, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Where did you get these from? If it was from the wiki, give them some credit and shut their mouth up. -- Jeffwang16  (Talk)   (Contributions)   (Email me!)  14:13, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't know where Sunspots got them from. Looks like he modified them first, since they are not exactly the same. --IcecreamKitten


 * The file pages on the GW wiki do not specify any copyright license. The only reference to a license I see is to GFDL. That doesn't mean the GW Wiki user doesn't have a point. It's not copyright infringement, but it doesn't have the same 'free license' (GFDL vs. CC-BY-SA) and it isn't fair use. You're best off creating your own (similar) icons. BramTalk/IGW 14:44, August 6, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ok I replaced them with native icons (some of them remade for better quality). I guess it's better this way, even though the new icons are more crappy. The Guild Wars icons were giving the main page a pretty strange look, now that I think about it. -- IcecreamKitten
 * The images were licensed under the GNU Free documentation licence (GFDL) - if you put attribution, and set the licence as GFDL, there will be no issue (in copyright terms) for using the licence. GuildWiki has it's own set of icons that you can go ahead and use, too - just link back and add a GFDL license template. -- Random Time  15:50, August 8, 2010 (UTC)


 * Thanks, it's good to know :) --IcecreamKitten