Thread:Semanticdrifter/@comment-3474513-20130204100619

Hi Sean,  I got to know you frm your previous webinar (about Copyright Basics) and I need some advice. I hope you could enlighten me about this cos I don't want to break the law or anything ^^"

The thing is,  I translated some stuff for my wikis (you can say they're brief synopsis for light novels, mangas,anime episodes,etc).- from Japanese to English; with some help frm the 'Google dictionary' as well. Usually in a few liners. Problem is, I realized that the wbesites that I translated the stuffs from are not available under CC-BY-SA. So does that mean I broke the law and have to take down whatever I translated for my wikis that are in English here on Wikia? :P Or is tht still under Fair Use?

Another dilemma is regarding images. I'd like to use thumbnail of anime characters as buttons that will link them respectively to their individual articles. I'm still wondering if we use images like for, say example;


 * An official image screenshot from their Japanese official website to represent the anime for our wiki homepage.(or used as thumbnail-sized created buttons for navigation)
 * A personally drawn or created image(done in Photoshop) to represent the anime for the wiki's homepage or character articles. (these could be in the form of fanarts, etc)
 * The official logo of the anime, screenshot or re-created in Photoshop for usage on the wiki.
 * Fanarts in replacement of official images. (Usually official images are much more accurate and are preferred, so fan arts are just a substitute, But it'd b great to know if we could use them under Fair Use)

Btw, are there limits to image sizes for Fair Use? I think banners/front images for the homepage should be fairly wide (around 700pxx250px) while character images used for articles are relatively small, around 250pixels wide & tall, enough to clearly feature who the character is and how it looks. I'm still a little blurry so pls advise, thank you very much and sorry to bother you. ^^"

Thank you.

Regards,

Koosha 