Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-848088-20130816070922/@comment-4811793-20130816134735

Out of the millions of images that are uploaded across Wikia, it's fairly rare for us to get a DMCA Notice. As a host for user-generated content, Wikia abides by the notice and takedown provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. That means we respond to valid takedown notices. We do make sure they are valid before we enforce them, i.e. they have all the required elements and appear to be from a legitimate source.

That said, it is certainly possible that the notices we receive might be mistaken, overly aggressive, not properly considering fair use, or untrue. That is where the Counter-Notice comes in to play. This procedure allows the uploader of material that may have been taken down unfairly to restore it. After that, it becomes a matter between the rights holder and the alleged infringer directly, and their only recourse from that point is litigation.