Forum:So for someone who doesn't feel like reading a lot of legal mumbo jumbo, what is the gist of free- and fair-use licensing?

For one, I understand that you are not allowed to make galleries. So what are the other basic Yes's and No's of image licensing?TheUnderfaker 14:18, July 16, 2010 (UTC)


 * You should read Fair use, but in a nutshell (to my understanding): Say you make a site/wiki about PDF documents, images from PDF readers and their interface, icons of document and adobe logos etc. are Fair Use. Anything else is NOT fair use. Wikipedia has alot of potential for fair use since it's an encyclopedia of everything, each article has fair use on the subject its about, more or less. Individual wikis like here on wikia does not. Take The Sims Wiki: Anything related to The Sims is fair use, but users pimping their user pages with anything copyrighted and not from The Sims is NOT fair use. Hope this helps, but I really must recommend you read the wikipedia article. Duskey ( talk )( blog ) 14:36, July 16, 2010 (UTC)