Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151226234449/@comment-452-20151227203225

Great article, thanks for linking it.

What I said earlier about the CC-BY-SA license isn't strictly accurate, as it's highly likely that fan fiction cannot be legally published under the CC-BY-SA license, due to the fictional universe being owned by the copyright holder.

The TOU says "You may not submit content to the Service that you did not create or that you do not have permission to submit." - which would appear to apply to fan fiction - however, wikia do not police this themselves, and hide behind the DMCA, and require the copyright holder to submit a takedown request.

Wikia turn a blind eye to many things, including fan fiction, because they don't really care about where content comes from, so long as it gets views.

I've asked wikia about whether something was legal to put on wikia in the past, and their response is always that they can't give legal advice, which basically translates into "No, not legally, but we don't really care".

edit: It would be interesting to ask them a question about legality which would obviously be legal, to see if they're willing to give "legal advice" that wouldn't require them to feign ignorance - unfortunately I cannot think of any such question.