User blog comment:Ericmoro/Introducing the Fan Contributor Program/@comment-5558012-20151217190850/@comment-452-20151220144357

"One of the things I don't like is that the writer doesn't own their work, instead it becomes Wikia's sole property."

This.

I'm happy to release unpaid work under CC-BY-SA, and I'm happy to do contract work where I relinquish the copyright in exchange for payment, but it seems downright silly to donate unpaid work to a for-profit company.