Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-655-20130922200053/@comment-655-20130923122523

In the past, Wikia has often asserted that they are not a licensee as defined by the CC license (and, as such, that any clauses of the license do not restrict their right to display ads on their site), because they are not actually using the content but just hosting it.

Whether that interpretation of the license would have survived any legal proceedings I don't know - but at least it was something that, apparently, all sides could live with as long as Wikia didn't go crazy with the amount and placement of advertisements, so that it never came to such.

If Wikia now tries to unilaterally change this informal agreement (if you want to call it that) then, apparently, they found out that their former interpretation of the license was wrong. If that is the case, we have to find a solution - but that solution, in my opinion, can't be one where just we as the content providers are giving up major parts of our rights.