Forum:Question about image copyright on screenshots
Hi, I was wondering what the policy for using screenshots of Super Smash Bros games from this wiki on other websites is? The images in question are screenshots of trophies from the different games they appear in, and on their image pages they mention that the usage of the screenshots here on the wiki fall under fair use. I'm not super familiar with copyright law, so I'm not sure whether this means it'd be appropriate to reuse these screenshots on other websites or not, and I just wanted to check to make sure before I do anything. Would it be appropriate to use these images elsewhere, given appropriate credit to the wiki and a link back to their image page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Xexzee (talk • contribs) 13:28, September 4, 2023 (EDT)
- The copyright message on the images are to tell the big companies (e.g. Nintendo) that our usage of the screenshots is "fair use" and is not interfering with their copyright. (But if Nintendo did sue the wiki over the usage, Nintendo's wallet and team of lawyers would likely win). The content of the wiki itself is under the copyright license of Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (or CC BY-SA 3.0 for short), which effectively means you are free to copy, adapt, modify, etc. that content for just about anything as long as you give credit and use the same license. The technical stuff out of the way... no one really cares. You may want to cover you butt from Nintendo with the images. As long as you don't say stuff like "I made these images" or "I wrote this in the script and am not reading verbatim from the wiki", no one will raise a stink (i.e. don't be a jerk). --CanvasK (talk) 13:53, September 4, 2023 (EDT)