Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-26835896-20150813232046/@comment-26402117-20150902214422

Its unethical at the least. Those people worked hard for their work, and the Berne Convention gives them the write to create anything and for their wiki's license to be obeyed. Assuming the other wikis are copyleft like Wikia, a link in the bottom of the article is required to the orignal source, along with a list of authors (page history basically) and a link to the relevant license. If not, its probably a copyright violation because releasing your work on a license for free still means its copyrighted with allowances made for the license's free aspects (if this makes sense).

Its like online free services that usually state that a transaction of no monetary value is made (= free) in legal essence when you use their service, and you promise to abide by its Terms and Conditions in return for your use. Oh yeah, plaigarism is not allowed in the T&C either under the arguments of "online conduct", "submitting licensable content under CC-BY-SA". Hope this may answer your question.

While we are not empowered to make legal judgements as Brandon Rhea said, we are in the ability to control what we submit and actually write it ourselves. Most to all content has an original source anyway (One Piece Wiki uses the titular manga, Fast and Furious Wiki uses the franchise' movie dialogue/transcripts, etc). So realistically, its a case of giving a damn as opposed to just lazing about and copypasting other people's work.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  21:44, September 2, 2015 (UTC)

PS: As I highly suspected when reading the full Creative Commons license, it is very possible to score a copyright violation even if it is a free license. You can go to court and pay damages for ripping off "free" content and monetizing it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Standard_CC-BY-SA_violation_letter

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  21:49, September 2, 2015 (UTC)